tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post656262443517442373..comments2023-11-03T06:36:27.305-04:00Comments on Phronesisaical: Another I-Told-You-Sohelmuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09069600766378586919noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-304338442492243832011-04-21T12:58:31.653-04:002011-04-21T12:58:31.653-04:00Cl-38 with a mass of 38 has an extremely small fis...Cl-38 with a mass of 38 has an extremely small fission yield. Its off the chart low on the fission yield curve in the Nuclear Engineering textbooks. I do not see any nearby nuclides for neutron capture, beta gamma decay to produce it. Cl-38 has such a short half, how could it stay around long enough to get sampled. I saw that TEPCO report and wondered about it too. Its good that TEPCO retracted that. Some communication must have got fouled up inside TEPCO?? we may never found out what. I am baffled though about why some people think presence of a radionuclide means "re-criticality". I know of no such phenonmenon from Reactor Theory. Fission produces the nuclides in the well known distribution as shown in fission yield curve. The only way I know of to determine a reactor is critical is by its neutron flux response. I have witnessed that many times and trained on it. I have concluded that those "re-criticality" claims are a hoax. But I am always open to something based on science if there is a phenomenon like which has a real basis in scientific journal etc.Charles Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12393292150911403832noreply@blogger.com