Posted on 03/13/2011 8:58:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Get a clue and look at a layout of BWR reactor building. The reactor top is still below the building sheeting still there. What you are looking at is the ‘reactor loading bay’, space above the reactor and containment vessel to pull/replace the fuel rods.
Also, to FReepaholic
Along with that, what effect did dropping two atomic bombs on Japan during WWII have on the United States? None!
23 posted on 3/13/2011 11:47:51 AM by RC2
That is little to compare to the 216 bombs we dropped on the US from 1945-1962 with around 153.8 mt.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/atest00.html
The irony is that all the backup systems in place to prevent total disaster worked as designed, even after the main diesel-driven backup cooling pumps failed. The ultimate solution of pumping in boron-enhanced seawater seems to have worked.
In a comment section on another article, someone from Japan explained that when it comes to evacuations and other precautions, Japan is more conservative than America. Apparently, they have quite detailed plans for events such as this. Gotta give them credit. Janet Napolitano was governor of Arizona for six years following 9/11 and NEVER produced an emergency plan for the state, and now look what she’s in charge of.
Actually that looks exactly how I would picture it would look it is had been engineered with roof blow out panels. From a ‘meltdown’ perspective, I would think that what matters is the integrity of the containment under and to the sides of the reactor core. But, I’m not a nuclear physicist or engineer. Just my two cents added to the pile.
It is treated with boric acid to help neutralize things and speed along the cooling process.
Actually that looks about right for a H2 blowout.
“Told you...”
You’re a genius!
Smooch!
THE OTHER REACTORS AT THE PLANT WILL BE QUICKLY CLEANED UP AND PUT BACK ON LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have done an exquisite job in this horrible disaster thanks to good design, training and hard work.
Yah, you're right. Nothing could possibly go wrong..
And it hasn’t.
I had to smile when I learned they are drilling a hole in the dome over the last troubled reactor so there won’t be such a large hydrogen explosion there if/when it happens.
The domes are designed to blow off anyway, but it scares people too much!!!!
On second thought there have been injuries from the explosions so it’s a reasonable thing to do for that reason.
Any of them that have had sea water injected into them will never be used again, from everything I’ve read. Plus, they just had a press conference due to an (another?) explosion at Unit 2 of Fukushima Daiichi and some of the people working there have now been evacuated. They think the reactor containment vessel may have become damaged.
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