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Thanks, Turi. Please note that only the leafy wood-based version is priced with 60 EUR. The PDFs of chapters and annexes can be downloaded for free (and in additional languages too). Seems worthwhile. Happy downloading...

More on tritium: the report referenced by Sodan has this passage that indicates that TEPCO plans to do tritium removal.

Well, the "low energy" comes into play when tritium is an external contamitant. Electrons with av. 5.4 keV are sufficient to break bonds in organic matter. And there is some double action: the former T, now He will not bind to its former place, leaving an OH- or carbon radical, which is not...

Unfortunately the author of these pages, "The Hiroshima Syndrome", Leslie Corrice, seems to be a shill for the nuclear industry. Not only that he posits that tritium poses no risk for mankind ("oh, it's so small an energy of the betas" despite acknowledging that these betas are ionizing, only...

So 2 1/4 years the TEPCO PR dept. found it feasible (without "losing honor") to admit what, at that time, indeed everybody understood. We then might prepare for lots of additional data that was supressed then. On the "rainwater theory" here's a nice comment from the same Ex-SKF thread: Then...

How could that be? In the weeks after the meltdown they had a lot of "steam" coming out, and they got the whole shield plug activated. Here's more data (of today): http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_130724_05-e.pdf Seems rather they have a (one?) hotspot...

From first TEPCO press statement, 9 July 2013 (http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2013/1228822_5130.html). We will remember that guy.

They are rushing it: now they are dismantling the Tepcotent to prepare the unloading of the SFP of unit 1. This was published under "Photos for press" only: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_130509_07-e.pdf

That guy is not only a trained NPP operator, but also a trained PR shill. His speciality seems to build straw men to knock them over. When you wold expect temperature data vs. flow -- nothing. Even TEPCO found it necessary to admit that not all water reached the RPV, so it's not even new. And...

Hi Steve, you might be interested in JNES' reevaluation of release rates: p. 11 of this document: http://www.aec.go.jp/jicst/NC/sitemap/pdf/P-4.pdf Basically, unit 3 did some discrete emissions, unit 1 had a long sustained one, and unit 2 started with an emission at least a magnitude larger...

Well, I remember that the first helicopter flight was abandoned because of too high radiation exposure and subsequent flights were done with a lead plate mounted underneath. So they might well have thought that the problem was the "shine" of the unit 4 pool (i.e. more or less empty) and not the...

Dear etudiant, you are falling for a part of the never-ending witchhunt against chairman Jaczko. The problem at that time was not evaporation of the SFP at unit 4; they did not know if it lost water. Remember the helicopter overflights for refilling (a show by the Japanese SDF for sure)? The...