/me raises glass to Madam Curie.
The first person to win the Nobel price twice; in Physics and Chemistry! On the occasion of her 144th birthday, I salute this scientist.
Fukushima reactors. An explanation.
Taken from here.
I have been reading every news release on the incident since the earthquake. There has not been one single (!) report that was accurate and free of errors (and part of that problem is also a weakness in the Japanese crisis communication). By “not free of errors” I do not refer to tendentious anti-nuclear journalism – that is quite normal these days. By “not free of errors” I mean blatant errors regarding physics and natural law, as well as gross misinterpretation of facts, due to an obvious lack of fundamental and basic understanding of the way nuclear reactors are build and operated. I have read a 3 page report on CNN where every single paragraph contained an error.
Somethings simply require background!
Feynman succintly sums up how hard it is sometimes to explain technical details of any phenomenon in any science to a layman.