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recent bookmarks from jmThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on nuclear power plant risks2020-03-05T10:34:50+00:00
https://thebulletin.org/2020/02/the-us-government-insurance-scheme-for-nuclear-power-plant-accidents-no-longer-makes-sense/
jmThe Japan Center for Economic Research, a source sympathetic to nuclear power, recently put the long-term costs of the 2011 Fukushima accident as about $750 billion. [...]
The main public risk of nuclear power plants comes from rare but devastating nuclear accidents. Because data on such accidents is sparse, the probability of their occurrence has to be calculated on the basis of a model, rather than obtained from experience. Moreover, the extent of an accident and its monetary consequences are postulated on the basis of models that are limited by analysts’ imagination. Who would have imagined, for example, that the Fukushima accident would involve several reactors? Or that Japan would subsequently shut down all its other nuclear power plants?]]>fukushima nuclear nukes power risks danger probability insurance nuclear-power reactorshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cbdecda4acb6/Soonish: The Lost Chapter2019-06-18T16:05:26+00:00
http://smbc-comics.com/soonish/lostchapter/index.html
jmnukes nuclear-power power future soonish smbc tech reactorshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e405061d6412/Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With Enriched Uranium Hidden In a Basement2016-05-13T15:09:19+00:00
http://gizmodo.com/5909961/kodak-had-a-secret-weapons-grade-nuclear-reactor-hidden-in-a-basement
jmKodak's purpose for the reactor wasn't sinister: they used it to check materials for impurities as well as neutron radiography testing. The reactor, a Californium Neutron Flux multiplier (CFX) was acquired in 1974 and loaded with three and a half pounds of enriched uranium plates placed around a californium-252 core. The reactor was installed in a closely guarded, two-foot-thick concrete walled underground bunker in the company's headquarters, where it was fed tests using a pneumatic system. According to the company, no employees were ever in contact with the reactor. Apparently, it was operated by atomic fairies and unicorns.
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