Informative Reading (Score 3, Interesting)

The interesting thing to me is how completely inaccurate all of the media has been in this entire "nuclear crisis". I work for a very large energy company with some of the guys that go visit those nuclear plants every year, most of them with PHDs in Nuclear Physics. Their concerns right now focus mainly on the nuclear fuel rod storage and how they are going to handle the excess amount of heating and unspent fuel rods sitting in empty cooling pools. There are absolutely no major concerns around the radiation levels past the power plants property lines. There has so far been ONE casualty to this accident, and people think that nuclear is unsafe? People in California are taking Potassium Iodide and several of them have gone to the hospital for their stupidity. If you are interested in the information about the nuclear event, and information about the actual power plants and exposure levels? Here's some reading, enjoy :)
Things it would be nice for the news media to have read before they started talking...
GE BWR Manual
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/teachers/03.pdf
GE ESBWR - Latest Design: Unbuilt.
http://www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/nuclear_energy/en/downloads/gea14429g_esbwr.pdf
Wiki Concerning Accident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents
Wiki BWR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWR
Spent Nuclear Fuel Calculations
http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/ir/bitstream/1840.16/2309/1/etd.pdf
Graphic: Plant Status
http://news.nationalpost.com/photo_gallery/japan-earthquake-graphic-nuclear-reactor-status/
Earthquake/ Radiation Levels/ No.2 / Status
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/03/16/graphics-explaining-japans-nuclear-reactor-disaster/
Tsunami
http://news.nationalpost.com/photo_gallery/japan-earthquake-graphic-where-the-wave-hit/#more-52826
Inside Reactor 2
http://news.nationalpost.com/photo_gallery/japan-earthquake-graphic-inside-fukushima-daiichis-most-worrisome-reactor/
Meltdown Dynamics
http://news.nationalpost.com/photo_gallery/graphic-meltdown-fears/
Exposure Levels
http://news.nationalpost.com/photo_gallery/japan-earthquake-graphic-how-fast-will-radation-kill-you/#more-52930
Earthquake Data/ H2 Blast/ Radiation Spread
http://news.nationalpost.com/photo_gallery/japan-earthquake-graphic-nuclear-plant-blasts/
Nuclear Fission product Decay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission_product
NRC: Zirconium Cladding Fire
http://www.irss-usa.org/pages/documents/SGS_213-223_response.pdf
Reactor Status: Excel Spreadsheet
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1300273535P.pdf
Zircaloy Reaction
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/purl.cover.jsp;jsessionid=2CE19F13EF4AF6C29CF80F89DB77903F?purl=/896213-dnJtSd/
GE Company Nuclear Response
http://www.gereports.com/facts-on-the-nuclear-energy-situation-in-japan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gereports%2Ffeed+(GE+Reports)
Thermal Loading in Spent Fuel Pool
http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/ir/bitstream/1840.16/2309/1/etd.pdf
Radiation Exposure Chart - near end of article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366670/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Waterbombs-dropped-nuclear-reactors.html?cf03192C19=2989A0C12!MjA0MDEyMjE5OmNvcnByYWRpdXNzc286RPpH+P135uzKLwyBUzyZdA==
Radiation Units - SV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert
Zirconium Reactions
http://www.ieer.org/comments/Daiichi-Fukushima-reactors_IEERstatement.pdf
Q&A Frank von Hippel
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42093747/ns/nightly_news
WSJ Article- Cool Graphics
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704396504576205000098975380.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories
CNN graphics
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2011/03/world/interactive.nuclear.japan/index.html?hpt=C2
MSNBC Graphics near the bottom
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42124500/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
BBC Graphics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12779512
CNN graphics
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2011/03/world/interactive.nuclear.japan/index.html?hpt=C2
MSNBC Graphics near the bottom
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42124500/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
BBC Graphics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12779512