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@elainekirk, and think about this meta-point we can infer from that study www.jaea.go.jp : The hot streak across Fukushima www.nnistar.com was merely a snap shot of emissions over only a few hours on March 15 simply on account of a happenstance rain that washed those emissions to the ground.

So suppose instead it had rained every day from March 12 to 15, the ground contamination would be exponentially worse because the greatest emission levels occurred before the evening of the 15th! In short, the disastrous level of ground contamination is a tiny fraction of the levels the meltdowns could've caused had it rained more! Unit 4 exploded early Mar 15, but it shouldn't have been anything close to the radio-output of blasts of Units 1 and 3 since its core was empty and pool seems intact.

The US West Coast got the levels it did because we were in a rainy loop for much of March.

i.space.com Irene is rely a beauty . Forget the people for a moment and lets admire this amazing show of nature ;-))))))

Funnels it in which makes it race through the canyons, but also you get the "sheets of falling glass" problem. I was in Corpus Christi for Celia in 1970, and it blew in the windows at the top of a 27 floor bank building, which then pancaked. Glass everywhere.

Video Tour of North Anna Nuclear Plant (today) us.arevablog.com

oh yes I saw that right away. Is interesting. Also, the reporter's hand goes for the shutdown handle. I'm like..um? (I would have slapped his hand if I was standing there).

@Cryptococcus Of course, being sane, my first thought when I saw that headline was that they were going to berate him for not taking all these events more seriously, till I saw Inhofe's name. With all of the possible things you could have chosen, legitimately, to catigate the NRC, he's going with "calling Fukushima an emergency"? Really?

@lillymunster That is rude. They should tell people that. Grr.

Human Factors Review for Severe Accident Sequence Analysis: pbadupws.nrc.gov
"This report describes a human factors research project performed to: (1) support the Severe Accident Sequence Analysis (SASA) program and (2) develop a descriptive model of operator response in accident management.- The first goal was accomplished by working with SASA analysts on the Browns Ferry Unit One anticipated transient without scram (ATWS) accident sequence to systematically assess critical operator actions and thereby demonstrate contributions to SASA analyses from human factors data and methods. The second goal was accomplished by developing a model called the Function Oriented Accident Management (FOAM) model, which provides both a conceptual structure linking off-normal safety functions with potential unconventional emergency responses and a method for developing technical guidance for those responses based on operations, engineering, and human factors data and expertise. The four components comprising the model are described and their use is shown through a table-top demonstration."

Nuclear power plants prepare for expected hurricane “If winds in excess of 100 mph approach 320 nautical miles from the plant, operators take action to begin shutting the plant down prior to the 100 mph winds reaching the site,” he said. www.power-eng.com

Press Release: Second Chapter of Hanford Story Released to Public www.greenmuck.com

@Edano oh COME ON.

@lillymunster agreed. absolutely mindblowing!