Mark Hibbs, writing in Nucleonics Week (subscription required), points out that that damage to China’s nuclear weapons facilities was slight: According to local sources, the China Academy of Engineering Physics, CAEP, located in Mianyang, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, was not significantly damaged but six personnel were injured. CAEP is responsible for nuclear …
I'm clean
by | 2008-05-18 | 9 Comments
One picks up a variety of strange souvenirs and ephemera in this business. My end of year dosimetry report from Los Alamos strikes me as one. We had to wear dosimeters when we went to see the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) Facility at Los Alamos last summer.
A Lot of NORK Pu
by | 2008-05-16 | 3 Comments
Glenn Kessler reported in the Washington Post yesterday that the US Intelligence Community has revised its estimate of the amount of plutonium separated at Yongbyon. U.S. intelligence analysts have prepared a fresh estimate of the size of North Korea’s stockpile of plutonium—larger than previous assessments—that will be compared with the information contained in 18,822 pages …
More Boxology
by | 2008-05-15 | 35 Comments
A friend observes that the Box-on-the-Euphrates may have been modeled to appear, at first glance, like a ruined Byzantine fortress. The other three images are of a Byzantine fortress in Zippori (Sepphoris) National Park, Israel. Same friend sends along some SketchUp models and Google Earth overlays, including: The BOE with the supporting structure for the …
