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US delivers coolant to Japan nuclear plant -Clinton
Scientific American ^ | March 11, 2011

Posted on 03/11/2011 8:32:57 AM PST by BenLurkin

The United States has transported coolant to a Japanese nuclear plant affected by a massive earthquake and will continue to assist Japan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday.

"We just had our Air Force assets in Japan transport some really important coolant to one of the nuclear plants," Clinton said at a meeting of the President's Export Council.


TOPICS: Japan
KEYWORDS: bhoasia; japanearthquake; pathologicalliar; piaps; soshillary; usaf
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To: TalonDJ
That summary is so oversimplified as to be almost totally inaccurate.

Reactor physics and thermodynamics are fairly simple. It ain't rocket science...
41 posted on 03/11/2011 9:11:21 AM PST by rottndog (Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America....)
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To: isthisnickcool

A good number of countries that tried to provide assistance after Katrina were blown-off by the U.S. And then you had the Alex Jones-types claiming we were under attack by them.


42 posted on 03/11/2011 9:12:48 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: BenLurkin

Lemme see if I unnerstand what you sayin’ Notsure. You wanna put water on our plants. Toilet water.
For the smartest man in the world you sure say some dumb s***.


43 posted on 03/11/2011 9:14:37 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: armed and dangerous)
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To: silverleaf

As I stated, the only issue is restoring electrical power to move water through the reactor core.


44 posted on 03/11/2011 9:16:04 AM PST by rottndog (Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America....)
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To: BenLurkin

Some really, really important coolant.

45 posted on 03/11/2011 9:16:47 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: BenLurkin

You mean water??????


46 posted on 03/11/2011 9:17:40 AM PST by Sursam Abordine
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To: kbennkc
Did they ever pay us for Pearl Harbor?

Yeah, by destroying our machine tool industry.

47 posted on 03/11/2011 9:18:29 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: TSgt

You are right. I think she’s high.


48 posted on 03/11/2011 9:18:40 AM PST by Sursam Abordine
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To: edpc

Water? You mean like in a toilet?


49 posted on 03/11/2011 9:20:45 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 779 of our national holiday from reality. - tic. tic. tic. It's almost 3 AM)
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To: 1rudeboy
More importantly, have the Japanese paid us for Pokemon and Hello Kitty?

Small potatos.

What we really need are reparations for karaeoke.

50 posted on 03/11/2011 9:21:54 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: rottndog

the only apparent issue

very odd statement by Rodham’s handlers, then

If we sent generators why not say “we sent generators”

maybe she meant “we sent very important coolant system equipment”

(ie, “generators”)

But Jeez, how many generators does it take to pump enough water to keep 2 nuc reactors cooled down? Is this hugh and series?


51 posted on 03/11/2011 9:22:15 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: BenLurkin

This ridiculous news to one side, have any of the so-called environmentalists noticed that even a massive earthquake has not caused the Japanese reactor to melt down, sink through the Earth’s core, blow up in a huge mushroom cloud, release Godzilla, or any of the other hysterical disasters they’re always conjuring up to prevent us from building more of them?

Just asking.


52 posted on 03/11/2011 9:31:25 AM PST by Argus
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To: silverleaf
But Jeez, how many generators does it take to pump enough water to keep 2 nuc reactors cooled down? Is this hugh and series?

You need one coolant pump at low speed in each reactor plant, one charging pump to add water if necessary, and one feed pump in the secondary plant so you can bleed steam from the steam generator on the secondary side.

Even without those items though, there is plenty of time to get power restored before the reactor core would be damaged. The reactor core is the lowest point in the system--as long as there is water on the core, there will be no damage to it.
53 posted on 03/11/2011 9:31:41 AM PST by rottndog (Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America....)
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To: Argus

The reactor core couldn’t sink through the Earth’s core over there because China is already on that side of the world. /s


54 posted on 03/11/2011 9:39:53 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: BenLurkin

This is just a flat out lie she pulled straight out of her a$$.

She is so ignorant about industrial processes she can’t even make up a good lie.

I’ll give my next paycheck to Jesse Jackson’s organization if someone can provide proof this is not a lie.


55 posted on 03/11/2011 9:40:40 AM PST by WayneM (Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.)
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To: rottndog

The reactors in question are boiling water reactors. They don’t have steam generators. The reports indicate that the diesel generators, which are in place to supply power to pumps and such in the event that power cannot be drawn from the grid, did not work. I can imagine many reasons why they might failed. A report earlier in this thread said that new diesel generators are being sent to the plant.


56 posted on 03/11/2011 9:41:51 AM PST by bagman
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To: kbennkc

The United States of America has not been out of debt since it was founded.

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo1.htm

01/01/1791 75,463,476.52


57 posted on 03/11/2011 9:42:19 AM PST by garyb
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To: rottndog; TalonDJ

2nd that.

q = m-dot x Cp x delta T

They’re not getting any m-dot if the pumps aren’t running because the emergency diesel generators aren’t running.

I wonder if we really delivered a generator or three. It is the sort of thing that would be readily available at a U.S. air base, and you could probably land a C-130 somewhere close by the plant.


58 posted on 03/11/2011 9:47:44 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: rottndog

It’s not the pumps, it’s how much power is required to run them? Generally generators are not the most efficient long term sources of power for equipment that draws a lot of power

This is on Drudge now, sounds bad - but then, the MEdia are seeking out interviews from the anti-nuke lobby, who are happily providing dire scenarios

Well, there goes the nuc industry, obamites will use this situation happily as an excuse to shut down even more of the US power industry


59 posted on 03/11/2011 9:52:14 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Last Dakotan
Yeah, by destroying our machine tool industry

I'd give American unions some credit for that, as well.

60 posted on 03/11/2011 10:06:34 AM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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