Modeling the Dispersion of Radioelements from the Fukushima Power Plant into the Sea: Methodology for an Emergency Answer, Estimation of Sources, Residence time in the Water Column and Sediment Motivation •Request from IAEA on March 14: dispersion into the sea of radionuclides from the atmosphere and from direct release •Daily conferences with IAEA: data availability, […]
From: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:28 AM To: Scott, Michael Subject: Re: Summary of TMI-2 fuel removal/cleanup activities Hisanori Nei Dear Mr. Scott Thank you for your advice by e-mail. It seems me to take over years to come and need to introduce new technologies as much. We need to consider how to […]
From: Case, Michael Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:11 AM To: Murphy, Andrew – Cc: Kammerer, Annie; Ake, Jon; Hogan, Rosemary; Richards, Stuart; Uhle, Jennifer Subject: FW: Seismic and Tsunami Hazard in PRA Hi Andy. Can you take the lead for this one in coordination with Annie and Jon? I sort of see an overview […]
Multi-Departmental Response Many federal departments (16) involved, principally: • Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) • Environment Canada (EC) – Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC) • Health Canada (HC) • Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN) • Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) • Public Safety (PS) Health Canada leads the technical advisory within Canadian Government Health […]
Enhance PTS capabilities in RN Threshold Monitoringand Source Attribution by appropriate recognition of the wet deposition impact In the past decade PTS has built up unprecedented capabilitiesin RN monitoring and source location of RN events Built up of the IMS RN networks with unprecedented detection limits for particulate radio-nuclides and radio-xenon Remarkable source location capabilities […]
GSI-189 chronology: 1998: First public mention that Sandia is having trouble “resolving” DCH issues for ice-condensers (CCFP > 0.1) April 2000: Publication of NUREG/CR-6427 after long delay Sept. 2000: Staff proposes establishing GSI to assess costs and benefits of additional hydrogen control May 2001: GSI-189 established Dec. 2001: Commission requests that staff resolve GSI-189 “expeditiously” […]
Most of the almost 70,000 tons of spent U.S. nuclear fuel stored in deep pools of water Many other countries in similar situation No permanent storage available Companies reluctant to spend money on dry cask storage Estimated $3 to $5 billion to transfer all overcrowded spent fuel to dry casks
Snapshot of Nuclear Power Today • about 14% of global electricity use and about 7 to 8% of total global energy use •30 countries + Taiwan with about 440 commercial reactors (≈ 370 GW) •11 countries enriching uranium •5 countries with commercial spent fuel reprocessing facilities •0 countries with geologic repositories for nuclear waste Is nuclear really […]
From: Case, Michael Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:39 AM To: Csontos, Aladar; Richards, Stuart Cc: Stevens, Gary Subject: RE: BWR Mark 1 Containment Issue – Torus Yes, that would be nice. — O-r-ig-in al Message —– From: Csontos, Aladar Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:46 PM To: Case, Michael; Richards, Stuart Cc: Stevens, Gary […]
From: Doctor, Steven R [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:36 PM To: Braatz, Brett G;Cumblidge, Stephen; Prokofiev, loun; Moyer, Carol; Harris, Robert V Subject: Info from Tetsuo Shoji Got this information from Stephen Bruemmer and thought you might find it informative. Steve Steven R. Doctor, Ph.D. Laboratory Fellow Applied Physics/National Security Directorate Pacific Northwest […]
From: Wegner, Mary Sent: Wednesday, March 1.6, 2011 10:29 AM To: Gonzalez, Felix; Hill, Kendra;:Hyslop, JS; Melly, Nicholas; Salley, MarkHenry; Stroup, David; Taylor, Gabriel Subject: Japan Info This is the latest from Japan. I can get all the earlier info if you would like it – From NISA, the regulator and TEPCO, the licensee. I […]
Commission Meeting Outline NRC Response to Core Damage Accident in Japan Current Status of Fukushima Daiichi * Reactors * Spent Fuel Pools Consequence Projections NRC Response Objectives * Support of US Citizens in Japan ” Support of the Japanese Government * Advance Our Understanding of Safety and Risk NRC Response Actions ” In Japan * […]