In January, 2012, Woody met with Professor Kondo, the Chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, a long time friend and colleague. He took his colleagues from Lloyd’s Register to meet Kondo-sensei as they made a tour of Japan. Kondo-sensei is a great man; he is truly concerned with nuclear risk and safety, and more …
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Tsunami Hazard and Risk Assessment Publication
Woody Epstein and Philip Watts have released a new presentation on the Tohoku Tsunami on Tsunami Hazard and Risk Assessment The presentation includes a probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Simulation of Fukushima Daiichi, an explanation of the new PerfectWave® software, the revelation of how many Japanese nuclear power plants are exposed similarly, and the probability of when this should happen again. They also address …
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Tsunami Hazard and Risk Assessment
Woody Epstein and Philip Watts have released a new presentation on the Tohoku Tsunami on Tsunami Hazard and Risk Assessment.
PerfectWave ®
PerfectWave® is proprietary software of Applied Fluids Engineering, Inc. Applied Fluids Engineering and its partner LR Scandpower are pleased to announce Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment (PTHA) consulting and software services. PerfectWave® is the leading state of the art PTHA software modeling tool, producing probability distribution functions for earthquake tsunami, landslide tsunami, and volcanic tsunami to …
Plutonium-kun
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Woody reflects on Japan’s usage of cute mascots to sway public trust and for electricity, coal mining and even plutonium usage, and explain how those are “good for you.”