Category Archives: Incident History

History of incidents at nuclear power plant around the world.

New Provisional INES Rating + A Chernobyl Primer

Posted on April 12, 2011 3:32 pm UTC by

Today the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency revised its INES rating of the Fukushima Daiichi event. The previous assessment treated the events at each of the ailing reactors as separate: the core damage to units 1-3 resulted in an … Continue reading →

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On worst case scenarios

Posted on March 17, 2011 3:55 pm UTC by

On prediction of “worst case” scenarios The blog has received a great number of questions surrounding worst case scenarios. This is not surprising given that such scenarios, with varying degrees of scientific merit, have been advanced in the media. The … Continue reading →

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