03-18-2011, 07:42 AM
deckeda wrote:
Nuclear reactors 101, which also has info about what took place in Japan: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011...crisis.ars A very good read, if you haven't read hardly anything else and don't know, in plain terms, what's happened.
In the commentary there's a link to a blog run by MIT students that seems packed with info and commentary: http://mitnse.com/ Haven't looked through it yet.
Stick with the MIT blog.
The Ars Technica author has no business trying to describe nuclear fission. There's being simplistic, and then there's being just plain wrong.