Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 28, 2011
Radiation levels that can prove fatal were detected outside reactor buildings at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, signaling a partial fuel meltdown and complicating efforts to contain the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. via Radiation Found Outside Japan Reactor, Signaling Meltdown – Bloomberg.
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 15, 2011
In 1972, Stephen H. Hanauer, then a safety official with the Atomic Energy Commission, recommended in a memo that the sort of “pressure-suppression” system used in G.E.’s Mark 1 plants presented unacceptable safety risks and that it should be discontinued. Among his concerns were that the smaller containment design was more susceptible to explosion and [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 12, 2011
