Thank you for the Oehmen link. Supremely useful.
Re:Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl
by Lazlo_Nibble on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:33PM
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I've seen a lot of people latch on to this writeup as authoritative, and I'm not sure why. Oehmen may indeed be a "research scientist" at MIT but his specialty is supply-chain risk management, not reactor design (http://web.mit.edu/oehmen/www/). Is there any reason to believe that he's anything more than an interested amateur on this topic?
The post has been moved, and updated by members of MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering community: http://mitnse.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japa...
Re:Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl
by Lazlo_Nibble on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @05:02PM
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Possibly relevant: http://geniusnow.com/2011/03/15/the-strange-case-of-josef-oe...
Don't get me wrong, there is definitely propaganda on both sides, but the anti-nuclear crowd pouncing on this before we have all the facts, and while there's a race against the clock to find survivors and prevent more loss of life, is counter-productive.