On March 21, Stanford University presented an invitation-only panel discussion

From Far Labs, a Vivid Picture Emerges of Japan Crisis, New York Times, April 2, 2011:

… On March 21, Stanford University presented an invitation-only panel discussion on the Japanese crisis that featured Alan Hansen, an executive vice president of Areva NC, a unit of the company focused on the nuclear fuel cycle.

“Clearly,” he told the audience, “we’re witnessing one of the greatest disasters in modern time.” …

Read the Times’ report here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/science/03meltdown.html?pagewanted=2&r...

See the presentation here.
http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/6615/March21_JapanSeminar.pdf