Current status of reactors, from TEPCO (will update as required, click to enlarge)
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Further technical information on Fukushima reactors
Posted on 14 March 2011 by Barry Brook
Below is edited material sent to me in confidence from some colleagues in the professional nuclear engineering and research community. It provides some further insight into what is going on at Fukushima, and what is still unknown. The main document was written by one nuclear engineer; the quotes are the response from another engineer. —————————— [...]
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Japan Nuclear Situation – 14 March updates
Posted on 14 March 2011 by Barry Brook
Update #1: TEPCO reactor by reactor status report at Fukushima (PDF file): http://goo.gl/lKwdz Update #2: New technical analysis here Update #3: A 2nd explosion (apparently another hydrogen explosion) has occured at Unit #3. Yukio Edano says that water injection at Unit 3 is reported to be continuing, the indications are the containment vessel is still safe. More here: [...]
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Fukushima Nuclear Accident – a simple and accurate explanation
Posted on 13 March 2011 by Barry Brook
Twitter updates: @BraveNewClimate New 15 March: Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 15 March summary of situation New 14 March: Updates and additional Q&A information here and Technical details here 福島原発事故-簡潔で正確な解説 (version 3)：(東京大学エンジニアリング在学生の翻訳) (thanks to Shota Yamanaka for translation) Other translations: Italian, Spanish, German, 普通话 ——————– Along with reliable sources such as the IAEA and WNN updates, there is an incredible [...]
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Discussion Thread – Japanese nuclear reactors and the 11 March 2011 earthquake
Posted on 12 March 2011 by Barry Brook
Please use this Discussion Thread for the situation in Japan with respect to the Miyagiken-Oki earthquake (9.0 magnitude) and associated 10m tsunami, and its impact on the local nuclear reactors. Here is a précis of the situation as I understand it: 1. There is no credible risk of a serious accident. All reactors responded by insertion [...]
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IFR FaD 9 – Summary of non-proliferation advantages of the Integral Fast Reactor
Posted on 11 March 2011 by Barry Brook
A fair amount of material has now accumulated on BNC regarding nuclear energy and the possible ‘proliferation’ implications of commercial nuclear power. Here is a list of the key posts: Response to an Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) critique (Barry Brook, George Stanford, Tom Blees) Carbon emissions and nuclear capable countries (Barry Brook) Nuclear safeguards and [...]
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BNC million hits approaches
Posted on 9 March 2011 by Barry Brook
Those who follow BraveNewClimate (BNC) regularly will know that I ran a competition a while back to see who could guess when the page views would pass the 1,000,000 mark. A few people prognosticated prior to the cut-off hit count (970K), and soon (late Sunday or early Monday I suspect), the winner will be revealed. [...]
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Correlates of global temperatures – part 2
Posted on 6 March 2011 by Barry Brook
For context, make sure you read this first: A toy model for forecasting global temperatures – 2011 redux, part 1 Here is a list and brief description of the data sources I will be analysing: 1. Annual global temperature (WTI): This is the ‘dependent variable‘ in the model. The time span is 1979 to 2010. [...]
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A toy model for forecasting global temperatures – 2011 redux, part 1
Posted on 2 March 2011 by Barry Brook
A little over two years ago, I wrote the following post on BNC: How hot should it have really been over the last 5 years? In it, I did some simple statistical tinkering to examine the (correlative) relationship between global temperatures and a few key factors, namely greenhouse gases, solar irradiance, and ENSO. In the next [...]
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