[meteorite-list] OT: Fukushima #1

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:25:04 -0500
Message-ID: <4BE23041A28344158D88118A1C2D7F68_at_ATARIENGINE2>

Hi, List,

Several list members will more knowledge of
drilling muds than I have pointed out (thoughtfully
off-list) that they have BARITES (barium), not
BORATES (boron) in them, are designed to work
at high pressures and lower temperatures, etc.
Thanks for straightening me out

Now there is trouble at Fukushima #3 which
a plutonium reactor, so I get to go back and
re-read the chapters on them I skipped night
before last. I'd dug through my old textbooks
and found a copy of Glasstone and Sesonske's
"Nuclear Reactor Engineering" (1963, 2nd Ed.)

When I was a grad student, I couldn't work the
intro reactor class into my schedule, but found
a copy of the text, used, for $2.00 in a bookstore
up the street. I would send you off to Amazon if
you were interested in reading up on reactors,
but they want $420 for the 2-vol. 1994 edition.

Seems knowledge ain't cheap...


Sterling K. Webb
Received on Sun 13 Mar 2011 04:25:04 PM PDT