FEPC has released another update. Not great news. The cores are all at least partially exposed. The water temperature in the spent fuel pond is 183 degrees Fahrenheit — close to boiling. The fact sheet contains a small amount of editorializing, comparing the one hour dose at the main gate to a chest CT scan. …
Cascading Failures
by | 2011-03-15 | 43 Comments
No one knows where Japan’s ongoing nuclear disaster will end. The current signs are ominous. We can only hope that the spent-fuel ponds can be prevented from boiling off. In the meantime, we can try to draw out some of the implications of the event. I’ve attempted that in my latest Bulletin column. The first …
Zirconium Cladding Fire Resources
by | 2011-03-15 | 6 Comments
A bibliography regarding zirconium cladding fires or, a discourse on the folly of man in the face of the wrath of nature. After the jump.
New FEPC Statement
by | 2011-03-15 | 21 Comments
Update | 4:32 pm It looks like there is some confusion about the source of the fire, which the IAEA reported was “at the spent fuel storage pond.” Keith Bradsher and Hiroko Tabuchi in the New York Times quote an “American official” saying the “fire there may have been caused by machine oil in a …
