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martinhesselius

Friday

Mar 11, 2011 16:47

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chapel_of_words March 12 2011, 04:02:11 UTC

You watching the nuclear plant? I did some reading up on Chernobyl to familiarize myself with beyond-worse-case scenarios (Chernobyl had a much poorer containment design) and was surprised on how light Chernobyl ended up being. Here's the WHO report of a study in 2005 of 100 scientists reviewing all effects ( ... )

martinhesselius March 12 2011, 05:28:33 UTC

Fear > logic.
>.<

martinhesselius March 12 2011, 05:30:10 UTC

OH!
This came up in a class I recently took --
Best real life model we have of a small dirty bomb (NOT a reactor meltdown):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

chapel_of_words March 12 2011, 09:55:32 UTC

Damn. It looked like "beyond-worst-case" may have just occurred.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/world/asia/13nuclear.html?hp

=(

Tim C.

chapel_of_words March 12 2011, 10:43:36 UTC

Good live coverage from NHK (in English) here.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

Tim C.

martinhesselius March 12 2011, 15:24:29 UTC

Thank you!