CERN’s “irradiation station” will investigate the effect of radiation on commercial materials, such as lubricants and gaskets, that are used regularly in accelerator beamlines and other radiation environments.
MIT researchers find much of the damage inside nuclear reactors is so small that it has eluded previous tests. Their new tool provides a way to directly measure this damage, potentially opening a path for the safe operation of nuclear power plants far beyond their present licensed lifetimes.
so on twitter short while ago, the international atomic energy agency association put out that there is no change, the radiation levels. that s probably the most important thing. quite early on there was some concern when news broke, is there any radiation damage? the good news is that there is no change to any radiation levels, no sign of any leaks whatsoever and no serious damage to the six reactors. good news to start the show off this morning, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. we will come to you as the news warrants. shannon: special report anchor bret baier has been tracking it and he joins us with the latest, good evening, bret. let s take a look at the map. we are talking about the thing that s been driving the news over the last few hours, the nuclear plant here. the zaporizhzhia plans.
shelling that penetrated reactors, that would be difficult throughout ukraine and honestly in a much greater region, but we didn t see anything anywhere close to that last night. when you say a greater region, throughout all of europe? well, you know, the radiation damage depends there s so many uncertainties here so let me just say we don t know. it depends on exactly what the mode of failure would be, exactly the mode of release, what the weather conditions were at the time. again, i just want to stress we never got close to those conditions last night. and i m glad you are stressing that. that s so important for people to hear and to understand. senator ed markey said that if this had destabilized, that it could have and would have amounted to a war crime. is that consistent with how the administration sees what happened last night?