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@lillymunster Well, see, this is a good example of loss in translation. I think what they mean, but are not clear enough about it, is that they found a bit too much xenon isotopes than expected. It is undeniable that fission will still occur, that's the nature of heavy radioactive isotopes. They added boric-acid solution to slow it down to what they consider safe limits. It's the media that has been making all the wrong assumptions. There is no indication of panic nor surprise in that report. So Tepco never mentioned nuclear chain reaction nor criticality in the first place, did they?

@Edano It does slow down the fission process by absorbing neutrons that could otherwise feed a chain reaction under certain circumstances. It does not change the natural decay (half-life) of the isotopes, if that's what you mean.

sorry, I meant self-explanatory

@lillymunster Have you checked the comment on Youtube on that NHK article posted a few minutes ago? They clearly state that Tepco never said criticality had happened. What Tepco mentioned is that criticality would result in higher levels of xenon than the ones detected. Bad translations and quick assumptions, that's all.

@lillymunster Yes, but the Youtube comment refers to the previous Tepco statement and still it doesn't mention criticality, not in the sense that it has happened
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Nuclear power plant remains offline after August earthquake. www.washingtonpost.com . But then: "At a public meeting in Mineral, Va., on Tuesday night, an NRC inspector said a decision to restart the reactors could come as early as next week." And: " ... the company had not decided whether to seek an increase in the rates customers pay to cover the costs of the outage."

i am prepairing a speech for things we can do to protect and help the usa from higher radation levels. Anyone who can site thier sorces and give info on how to help or who is debating these things will be greatly apreaciated . thank u

@amber m Here's a bit originally from a Fairewinds Associates video. Fairewinds is a nuke consulting firm run by Arne Gundersen, nuke engineer and consultant at Three Mile Island accident in the USA. Transcript Excerpt

“Two of the three monitoring stations in the United States did show hot particles in the air in April. Since then, there have not been any hot particles. But in April, it is clear that, at the worst of the accident, hot particles were wafted across the Pacific and deposited in Seattle and in Boston at least. There is also data that indicates contamination on the ground in the Cascades, which are a mountain range right up against the Pacific Ocean.

So I think we have two problems here. In Japan, there is a personal health issue and what that means is that individuals have received enough radiation that there is going to be a statistically meaningful increase in cancers in Tokyo and especially in Fukushima Prefecture.

In the United States, it is a different story. It is a public health issue and not a personal health issue. What that means is that we will never know who is the individual who got cancer from Fukushima. But we can be sure that the radiation did reach here and that there will be an increase in cancers, especially on the West Coast where the Rocky Mountains stopped most of the radiation and deposited it on the ground.” Fairewinds video

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@lillymunster , if the WP had guts the headline would have been: "Dominion Set to Restart North Anna NPS Next Week, Possibly At Customer Expense." But a paper that runs a for-profit online university on the side cannot seem to do that.