RenewableCandy wrote:However, might I point out that myself, KenNeal and Biff are all easily identifiable: it would almost certainly be a useful addition to the debate if we knew who the Inspector was irl. Not only would it raise the tone, it might shed some much-needed light on the nuclear industry.
This is a really good point - I've been involved in a quite a few on-line publishing and community discussion projects - anonymity and serious, respectful discussion doesn't tend to go well together. At The Oil Drum, we mostly use our real names now, where initially most didn't.
Folk who want to be taken seriously and respectful, would do well not to hide their identities.
RenewableCandy wrote:
I'm ready to hear interesting stuff, because frankly all one hears from the outside is bad news followed by bland assurances
Sorry but here's more bad news; you'll have to wait a bit for the bland assurances that will doubtless follow. The Tsuruga power station over on the west coast of Japan has had a leak: 3,900,000 becquerels of xenon per litre were detected. The reactor was shut down earlier today.
RenewableCandy wrote:
I'm ready to hear interesting stuff, because frankly all one hears from the outside is bad news followed by bland assurances
Sorry but here's more bad news; you'll have to wait a bit for the bland assurances that will doubtless follow. The Tsuruga power station over on the west coast of Japan has had a leak: 3,900,000 becquerels of xenon per litre were detected. The reactor was shut down earlier today.
An Inspector Calls wrote:
I'm not sure where you get your figure from: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/201 ... 7000c.html
suggests it's 3,900 not 3,900,000. And the leak seems to be one fuel canister. Routine stuff I would have thought.
A clever inspector would notice the units.
3900 Bq/cubic centimetres is the same as 3900000 Bq/litre
I expressed the figure using SI units, avoiding the cc.
Like I said, "Just the regular stuff of nukes going wrong. Nothing to worry about."
While Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) experiences difficulties in recruiting workers willing to go to Fukushima to clean up the damaged reactors, the World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to conduct an epidemiological survey on the catastrophe. This is the first of two reports offering a worker-centered analysis of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have entered one of its reactor buildings for the first time since it was hit by a powerful earthquake on 11 March, officials say.
They are installing ventilation systems in the No 1 reactor to filter out radioactive material from the air.
The lower levels of #1 are quite intact - that's where we've seen the robot footage from. #3 is in a far worse state and little of it can be entered for mangled steel and concrete.
.