Quick Hits: IAEA, Safety Codes, Whitman

The International Atomic Energy Agency starts a mission : Starting Monday, they will hold meetings with the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Ag...

When Only a Putzmeister Will Do...

The other day, we mentioned that two pumps were being sent form the United States to Japan to help with the water spraying effort at Fukushi...

Making Choices

Would closing down Japan's nuclear energy plants solve - well, anything? Supplying the same amount of electricity by oil, for example, ...

Saturday Update

From NEI's Japan Earthquake launch page: UPDATE AS OF 12:00 P.M. EDT, SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Recovery efforts continue at the Fukushima Daiic...

Editorial Round-Up

April Fools? Maybe not: Nuclear energy is, for the most part, clean. Though not inexpensive to build, power plants do provide energy at a re...

John Boice - Fukushima Radiation a Threat?

Epidemiologist John Boice did a superb job this morning on MSNBC tempering overreaction to radiation levels. Key takeaways: Dilution and dis...

Finding the Crack at Fukushima

The Washington Post put it this way : Authorities discovered radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant flowin...