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@Edano eesh. :(

The cost of buying land to build nuclear reactors may increase by as much as 10 percent because the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11 will force developers to buy in safer areas, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency.
www.bloomberg.com

@Meretisa : yes, all 3 rpvs are in cold shutdown now. faster than planned.

@Edano oh. good. I was getting concerned. time to turn on Idol. :P NOT!!

@Angie, Homer was going to get his shovel and start digging under the reactors to take a look ?

@Angie, TEPCO will then run a hose down there to wash the corium out !!

@wtm ..into the sea...

Japan is expected to announce a requirement to have all new buildings include solar panels by 2030 at an upcoming G8 meeting in France on Thursday. cleantechnica.com

@Angie, Glad you brought that up, will have to check them and see ?? Next one should be real interesting especially with the latest developments !

@angie, there was some talk about how to play "find the corium". There was a suggestion about using the type of xray equipment they use in mining to attempt to locate it.

@Lethbridgean Finally found it by searching "Fuku" rather than "Japan" but the Vancouver Sun is the source and it's the second story down right now.

@ms in la - yay Canada. Wait a minute....Booo Canada for not testing the milk.

@NaNcy And will ultimately be larger by a huge degree..We haven't seen the end of dumping, never mind leaking.

Dinner, back later !

There is this:

@Nancy I'm still closely watching the bottom of 4.. I still think there may be a fire on that level that's at tree line. The opening seems a little larger than before and when they zoomed earlier I was seeing orange from just within that spot we had been looking at. Tonight should be interesting! If that level gives what would happen to the SFP?...Then again I could still be seeing things ;-)

on time maps: wettergefahren.de/sonderbericht.html ...just cklick on map

Oh yay!! " The NRC says every U.S. plant has the capability of effectively cooling down reactor cores and spent fuel pools after a major problem."

@ms in la They may have missed this paper...

Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Public Report
The consequences of terrorist attacks can be described in terms of either maximum credible releases or best-estimate releases. The former describes the largest releases of radioactive material following an attack based on quantitative analytical models (e.g., the MELCOR computer code described in Chapter 3). The latter describes the median estimates from such models. In both cases, the estimates may not account for mitigative actions that could be taken after an attack to reduce or even eliminate releases.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission analyses reviewed by the committee in its classified report are best-estimate releases for various terrorist attack scenarios. The estimates in NUREG-1738 (USNRC, 2001 a) and Alvarez et al. (2003a). on the other hand, describe maximum-credible to worst-case releases.

The committee considered four classes of terrorist attack scenarios in this study:
• Air attacks using large civilian aircraft or smaller aircraft laden with explosives.
• Ground attacks by groups of well-armed and well-trained individuals.
• Attacks involving combined air and land assaults,
• Thefts of spent fuel for use by terrorists (including knowledgeable insiders) in radiological dispersal devices.

www.nap.edu