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@all Can't stay for long but wanted to post this: "On March 21, Stanford University presented an invitation-only panel discussion on the Japanese crisis that featured Alan Hansen, an executive vice president of Areva NC, a unit of the company focused on the nuclear fuel cycle.

“Clearly,” he told the audience, “we’re witnessing one of the greatest disasters in modern time.”

Dr. Hansen, a nuclear engineer, presented a slide show that he said the company’s German unit had prepared. That division, he added, “has been analyzing this accident in great detail.”

The presentation gave a blow-by-blow of the accident’s early hours and days. It said drops in cooling water exposed up to three-quarters of the reactor cores, and that peak temperatures hit 2,700 degrees Celsius, or more than 4,800 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s hot enough to melt steel and zirconium — the main ingredient in the metallic outer shell of a fuel rod, known as the cladding.

“Zirconium in the cladding starts to burn,” said the slide presentation. At the peak temperature, it continued, the core experienced “melting of uranium-zirconium eutectics,” a reactor alloy.

A slide with a cutaway illustration of a reactor featured a glowing hot mass of melted fuel rods in the middle of the core and noted “release of fission products” during meltdown. The products are radioactive fragments of split atoms that can result in cancer and other serious illnesses.

Stanford, where Dr. Hansen is a visiting scholar, posted the slides online after the March presentation. At that time, each of the roughly 30 slides was marked with the Areva symbol or name, and each also gave the name of their author, Matthias Braun.

The posted document was later changed to remove all references to Areva, and Dr. Braun and Areva did not reply to questions about what simulation code or codes the company may have used to arrive at its analysis of the Fukushima disaster.

“We cannot comment on that,” Jarret Adams, a spokesman for Areva, said of the slide presentation. The reason, he added, was “because it was not an officially released document.” hcsstt.blogspot.com

@Peter Melzer Probably you're right.

Fukushima protective gear tears easily and some suits have been disposed of impropely on the side of the road. www.japanprobe.com

@Peter Melzer I think that's the same as posted on the Stanford link. Li-chi Cliff Po also offers Fukushima Event PCTRAN Analysis operatingexperience.doe-hss.wikispaces.net

@smoss , have a good time and
thanks!

Nuke plant manager ignores bosses, pumps in seawater after order to halt. www.asahi.com
"I continued with the pumping of seawater based on the judgement that the most important thing was to continue with pumping water into the reactor core in order to prevent the spread of the accident"

Crippled nuke plant not prepared for heavy rain, wind
TOKYO, May 28, Kyodo
english.kyodonews.jp

The Atomic Energy Society of Japan plans to make the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant a storage site for radioactive waste.
The crippled plant would be an ideal nuclear fuel graveyard because building a new one would cost several million yen, according to Muneo Morokuzu, professor of energy and environmental public policy at the University of Tokyo

This has got to be a joke......A car costs more than a couple million yen in Japan..haha
Read more: www.allheadlinenews.com
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@all Good Morning...Good Evening...Hello

Hi Smoss!

BTW Hi Angie! Better late than never....and hi to the sock puppets!

@Deb It is isn't it!? I noticed a little snippet on Kyodo saying they weren't prepared for high wind and rain..I guess they feel their plan to coat the reactors in green plastic spray isn't quite enough...if it wasn't such a horror I'd be laughing.

@Peter Melzer Posting a link to the vid requested www.youtube.com

Daiichi just totally socked in. Radioactive salt fog. And a typhoon on the way. The fun just never ends.

The Tsunami Tent idea is looking pretty silly about now too.

What is the ETA and category for JPN ?.....it's slowing down right now isn't it ?

Typhoon Songda Strengthens. specials.forbes.com(facebook+OR+twitter+OR+linkedin+OR+google+OR+yahoo+OR+aol+OR+foursquare)+AND+business

@LM One can only hope cause right now wave is at over 30 feet