On March 19th, 2012, I gave a presentation at the Pacific Basin Nuclear Power Conference in Pusan, Korea. In that presentation I used a slide from the ANS Summer meeting in 2011. This slide indicated that a study by TEPCO in 2006 showed that the recurrence frequency of a tsunami greater than 5.7m was higher …
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Woody at the PBNC
On March 19th, at the Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference in Busan, Korea, Woody was a guest speaker on a special panel session, ” Special Panel Discussion I: Fukushima Accident, Issues and Lessons”. Click here for the presentation.
Kondo-sensi
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 …
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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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 …