The possibility of re-criticality is not zero
Ick! That would be the scariest LRPD quote ever...
http://www.bbc.co.uk...ironment-12762608 If you are in any doubt as to what this means, it is that in the company's view, it is possible that enough fissile uranium is present in the cooling pond in enough density to form a critical mass - meaning that a nuclear fission chain reaction could start. Apparently, the pools are overstuffed and the boron disappeared with the water. Now they're concerned that adding water may moderate neutron speed enough to restart fission. |
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Yikes.
Given the way the fates have played with this plant over the last few days, one certainly can't rule much of anything out... :-(
Cheers, Scott. |
8.9 magnitude earthquake off NE Japan. Tsunami.
- (Another Scott)
- (69)
- March 11, 2011, 07:08:19 AM EST
Nuclear plant can't cool down correctly, evacuation ordered
- (jay)
- (3)
- March 11, 2011, 01:53:59 PM EST
It sounds quite serious.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- March 11, 2011, 11:50:33 PM EST
Yup, it's quite serious...
- (Another Scott)
- March 12, 2011, 07:11:56 AM EST
Situation looks like it's still getting worse
- (jay)
- March 15, 2011, 04:34:05 PM EDT
Continuing coverage after 2nd explosion at Fukushima plant
- (Ashton)
- (22)
- March 14, 2011, 12:36:51 AM EDT
Really great timing.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (1)
- March 14, 2011, 01:19:37 AM EDT
Have you seen or heard this?
- (Another Scott)
- March 14, 2011, 07:32:23 AM EDT
Cooling at 3rd reactor fails after explosion damages pumps
- (jay)
- (3)
- March 14, 2011, 02:23:54 PM EDT
ÂTheyÂre basically in a full-scale panicÂ
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- March 14, 2011, 03:14:47 PM EDT
Re:TheyÂre basically in a full-scale panic
- (boxley)
- (1)
- March 14, 2011, 04:05:48 PM EDT
I'm not so sanguine.
- (Another Scott)
- March 14, 2011, 04:34:23 PM EDT
Counter to the prevailing hysteria:
- (malraux)
- (15)
- March 14, 2011, 04:17:22 PM EDT
I wish I was all-seeing like Lewis Page.
- (Another Scott)
- (14)
- March 14, 2011, 05:49:48 PM EDT
there is a bed of graphite under the containment vessel
- (boxley)
- (5)
- March 14, 2011, 05:52:23 PM EDT
It'll stop going down, but maybe not out in the air...
- (Another Scott)
- (4)
- March 14, 2011, 05:59:17 PM EDT
but there's still a significant chance of...
- (folkert)
- (3)
- March 14, 2011, 06:10:23 PM EDT
Yes, they're not exposed graphite piles.
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- March 14, 2011, 07:00:14 PM EDT
Demonstrably, their major error re all the diesels was:
- (Ashton)
- March 14, 2011, 07:59:25 PM EDT
Well... okay, here goes.
- (folkert)
- March 14, 2011, 09:50:34 PM EDT
More Lewis Page.
- (malraux)
- (7)
- March 18, 2011, 05:54:38 PM EDT
Evidently the panic is just that... Panic.
- (folkert)
- (6)
- March 18, 2011, 06:24:29 PM EDT
Local news has started berating the coverage.
- (static)
- March 18, 2011, 07:48:09 PM EDT
I wouldn't say "ignored"
- (Another Scott)
- (4)
- March 18, 2011, 09:02:47 PM EDT
I don't believe that was a sigh, Mr. F.
-NT
- (beepster)
- March 18, 2011, 11:20:15 PM EDT
Exactly.
- (Ashton)
- March 18, 2011, 11:48:03 PM EDT
Since you like Lewis so much...
- (malraux)
- (1)
- March 21, 2011, 05:28:49 PM EDT
Rofl. :-)
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- March 21, 2011, 05:44:42 PM EDT
3rd explosion may have damaged a reactor vessel
- (scoenye)
- (3)
- March 14, 2011, 09:24:57 PM EDT
The more I read, the worse it sounds...
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- March 14, 2011, 09:45:46 PM EDT
Fire engines
- (scoenye)
- (1)
- March 14, 2011, 09:55:02 PM EDT
Yup.
- (Another Scott)
- March 14, 2011, 11:57:07 PM EDT
More on GE BWR designs
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- March 14, 2011, 11:32:24 PM EDT
We're sitting on one
- (scoenye)
- (1)
- March 15, 2011, 08:07:14 AM EDT
:-(
- (Another Scott)
- March 15, 2011, 08:38:09 AM EDT
"It's worse than a meltdown"
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- March 15, 2011, 12:05:21 AM EDT
have you purchased the solar panels for your leccy car?
- (boxley)
- (1)
- March 15, 2011, 12:47:10 PM EDT
Non sequitur
- (Another Scott)
- March 15, 2011, 12:49:39 PM EDT
Something is Strange here..
- (Ashton)
- (10)
- March 15, 2011, 05:19:48 PM EDT
It seems they can't.
- (Another Scott)
- (3)
- March 15, 2011, 05:53:47 PM EDT
drift chart
- (boxley)
- (2)
- March 15, 2011, 05:58:53 PM EDT
Getting us back for WWII?
-NT
- (folkert)
- March 15, 2011, 07:31:19 PM EDT
Well, if nuclear power isn't dead yet in the U.S. . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- March 15, 2011, 08:33:12 PM EDT
I didn't address the fuel storage areas before, obviously.
- (Another Scott)
- (4)
- March 15, 2011, 09:13:16 PM EDT
Aye, TMI (info, not 3Mi-Island) of generic kind
- (Ashton)
- (3)
- March 15, 2011, 11:07:35 PM EDT
Thanks.
- (Another Scott)
- March 15, 2011, 11:37:41 PM EDT
NYT answers to selected Qs submitted yesterday
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- March 17, 2011, 01:57:19 AM EDT
Good Q&A. Would be nice if more reporting was like that...
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- March 17, 2011, 07:59:14 AM EDT
It's the spent fuel containment pools
- (jay)
- March 16, 2011, 12:19:58 AM EDT
Recommended news sites, etc.
- (Another Scott)
- (8)
- March 16, 2011, 07:48:35 AM EDT
Plus, Bulletin Atom. Sci. chimes in
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- March 16, 2011, 05:12:02 PM EDT
Thanks.
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- March 16, 2011, 10:45:57 PM EDT
One more
- (scoenye)
- (4)
- March 16, 2011, 06:06:36 PM EDT
Reuters has something similar.
- (Another Scott)
- March 16, 2011, 10:49:48 PM EDT
Some radiation levels.. and unit comparisons
- (Ashton)
- (2)
- March 17, 2011, 01:03:43 AM EDT
The MIT NSE site has some good info, too.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- March 17, 2011, 07:58:33 AM EDT
If still not suffering from tmi? Oildrum limns mondo links
- (Ashton)
- March 17, 2011, 06:09:01 PM EDT
Somewhat related
- (Steve Lowe)
- March 17, 2011, 02:23:34 AM EDT
The possibility of re-criticality is not zero
- (scoenye)
- (1)
- March 16, 2011, 09:03:29 PM EDT
Yikes.
- (Another Scott)
- March 16, 2011, 10:00:23 PM EDT
Japan raises incident threat level again
- (jay)
- March 18, 2011, 09:15:32 AM EDT
NYTimes summary page of reactor and fuel storage status.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- March 19, 2011, 12:23:38 AM EDT
Re TEPCO credibility
- (Ashton)
- March 19, 2011, 01:59:50 AM EDT
Japan Quake Map.
- (Another Scott)
- (3)
- March 20, 2011, 09:21:46 PM EDT
Wow! what a clever, informative scary piece of work..
- (Ashton)
- (2)
- March 21, 2011, 12:25:11 AM EDT
Not quite the same, but the USGS has ANSS
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- March 21, 2011, 12:49:32 AM EDT
Thanks.. looking.
- (Ashton)
- March 21, 2011, 01:01:15 AM EDT
Bulletin. At. Sci. daily reports
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- March 23, 2011, 03:43:28 PM EDT
Thanks.
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- March 23, 2011, 05:14:47 PM EDT
Latest on Fukushima from the NYTimes.
- (Another Scott)
- March 23, 2011, 08:11:39 PM EDT