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Environment & Energy

Kelvin Mace

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2. Really?

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 06:53 PM

May 2016

Thanks to a lucky break detailed in a report released today by the U.S. National Academies, Japan dodged that bullet. The near calamity “should serve as a wake-up call for the industry,” says Joseph Shepherd, a mechanical engineer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who chaired the academy committee that produced the report.

Except that it won't because learning from mistakes cuts into profits.

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Burning reactor fuel could have worsened the Fukushima disaster [View all] OKIsItJustMe May 2016 OP

And meanwhile it continues to leak into the ocean. WhiteTara May 2016 #1

Really? Kelvin Mace May 2016 #2

What in the wonderful minds of people reporting this would the "worsened" case involve? NNadir May 2016 #3

What in the wonderful minds of people reporting this would the "worsened" case involve? OKIsItJustMe May 2016 #5

And? NNadir May 2016 #6

If you want to know, don’t ask me. Read the report. OKIsItJustMe May 2016 #7

I've spent thousands of hours reading all sorts of reports about nuclear technology. NNadir May 2016 #8

The liquidus surface of the PuO2, UO2, ZrO2 system. NNadir May 2016 #9

So would've a 60' tall lizard with anger issues but, thanks to a lucky break, Japan dodged that too! Nihil May 2016 #4