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@James Ward Cool. Now I've got it archived anyway.

@Scilla. The analysis of #2's SFP's skimmer tank :
Cesium 134 @ 160,000 Bq/cm^3
Cesium 137 @ 150,000 Bq/cm^3

@Nancy That good. I'm working on getting all this stuff so we can search it. So, as long as it gets put here in some form, we've got it.

@Jim Carver Wiki says 1969 it started. Will put the PDF's in our FAQ wiki so they are available. I will make sure to put the caveat that this is the same generation but at a different facility. I think this is what fitter has been looking for.

@Nancy Yes...1991 is when the original license was issued. By the way, just in case you need it, here's a complete list of US reactors with clickable links to individual plant details: www.nrc.gov

@James Ward Wonderful! Those could come in handy. Will add this to our wiki if not already on there.

@Markfm so it is about the same vintage as unit 1 at fukushima

For folks in the US, this could have turned into a bad situation during the recent tornadic events, but the back-up generators kicked in as planned: "Tornado cuts power to Surry nuclear power plant" www.virginiabusiness.com

@Nancy My bad...not sure why they have 1991 as the original license date for Oyster Creek. Here's the correct data: "Oyster Creek is a single unit 619 MWe boiling water reactor power plant which first came online on December 1, 1969; it is the oldest operating nuclear power plant in the United States. Located 50 miles east of Philadelphia and 75 miles south of New York City,[4] the plant gets its cooling water from Barnegat Bay, a brackish estuary that empties into the Atlantic Ocean through the Barnegat Inlet." en.wikipedia.org

@James Ward Thanks. Sounds like it is fairly close to unit 1, at least enough for what various people were after.

@Markfm that is what mine started as, sorta grew though. :-)

@Nancy I pulled it in and blew it up, but nothing really to enhance. Just yer basic 18ft pool of steaming atomic gumbo at a rolling boil.

I'm still wondering about the slight pink color.

Mysterious Trades in a Big Block of Tokyo Electric Shares Draw Regulators’ Interest
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: April 18, 2011 TOKYO — Japanese regulators and executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company are asking questions about a seemingly coordinated series of stock purchases two weeks ago that led to an undisclosed buyer or buyers acquiring a large bloc of the utility, which owns Japan’s dangerously damaged nuclear power plant. THIS IS INTERESTING..... www.nytimes.com

@Sinthia Domina Almost counter intuitive. Why would anyone want TEPCO stock right now?

@radioguy no dimensions on 4, I have been using the rough length of #1 (the long side) as my rough length of 4. But as we were discussing earlier today the lower below grade is square so that long measure might be at least in the ballpark.

Radiochemistry professor lends expertise to Japan nuclear crisis Default Thumbnail
April 18, 2011 by Nolan Lister
UNLV faculty member enlisted to consult for General Electric in wake of Fukushima plant disaster. A UNLV chemistry professor was called on by General Electric to act as a consultant on the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.The nuclear power plant suffered structural damage on March 11, under the force of a tsunami that resulted from an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale. General Electric, designer of the plant, sought help from Ken Czerwinski, a professor in UNLV’s radiochemistry program.“The skills set that we teach and study within our program is a unique area of research, and I’ve worked with people at General Electric before,” Czerwinski said. “They needed a radiochemist who could help them understand the chemistry of the elements in question, their fuel cycles and how it may change.”Czerwinski’s program is comprised of professors from the chemistry and health physics programs and focuses on understanding the chemistry of elements only available as radioactive isotopes.“This is a unique program,” Czerwinski said. “There are not many universities that have the capabilities that we have.”After the tsunami struck, destroying four of the six reactors at the site, nuclear fuel was exposed to air at high temperatures due to a malfunction in the cooling tanks. Power plant workers were forced to manually cool the spent fuel by dumping seawater on it. This left the nuclear material in an unpredictable state.Enter Czerwinski.“[General Electric] wanted to gather a cadre of people with the right skill sets together,” he said. “For instance, one of the things we can estimate how it’s going to behave, if you clean it up, will it fall apart? Is it going to be brittle? Is it something that you can maneuver easily without spreading a lot of activity around?”The disaster was originally rated a “five” on the International Nuclear Event Scale, but it was increased to a “seven” on April 12 — the same level as the disaster in Chernobyl 25 years ago.
“The issue, right now is coming up with preliminary plans, trying to understand what to expect and then probably start doing more research,” Czerwinski said. “This is fundamentally what we want to do with the radiochemistry program.”
The program has garnered some publicity after its efforts with General Electric. Czerwinski said he hopes that the community will take notice of the university’s efforts and recognize the importance of higher education in the state of Nevada.“The radiochemistry program and the university itself has been able to show what has been developed here, how it’s actually been able to inform and contribute,” he said. “[We] want to show value added to the public, and I hope this is an example of how the university helps out the community.” unlvrebelyell.com

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@radioguy after seeing the crazy things in the commodities markets, like the guy in the UK trying to buy up all the chocolate, nothing surprises me. Someone in the group used to be a trader, can't remember who though. They might have an idea what is up with this.

@Sinthia Domina I think whomever did it had to have some inside knowledge.