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You could have helped out “Bill Nye the Science Guy” on CNN yesterday. The commentator asked him why they couldn’t use liquid nitrogen to cool the fuel rods. Nye said that it was a problem of portability, that LN2 wasn’t very portable, and besides, when you’re talking about the extreme temperatures of fuel rods, there’s no appreciable difference in the cooling temperature of water as compared to LN2. That’s why, says he.

Of course, right after that, the commentator asked him about what caused the hydrogen explosion in plant #1. Nye said, and this is pretty close to an exact quote: “Hydrogen explosion? That doesn’t make any sense. Someone must have confused hydrogen with helium. There couldn’t be a hydrogen explosion, it must have been helium.”

Holy crap...all I know about generating nuclear power is what I’ve learned on the internet in the last couple of days and even I about choked on my beverage when I heard him say that. He’s CNN’s special, super smart, science guy who’s going to teach the audience all about nuclear power? OMG. I looked him up on wikipedia to see what his credentials were, and his highest level of education is a B.S. Degree.

Fox News has a UN weapons inspector on right now attempting to describe how a nuclear plant works. ROTFLMAO!! Yesterday they had Peter Doocy doing trying to explain nuclear technology. CBS had a Georgetown "nuclear professor" on this morning and he did no better than Doocy did. Nobody even noticed that the pic they had on the screen this morning that this "professor" was using was of a PWR. This is getting comical. How about getting an operator that obtained an NRC license at a similar GE BWR to give a brief explanation of the situation? Heck, even a stepped-out NLO from a BWR would do. They would have far more knowledge of the topic that some of these "degreed" experts on TV have.

I've operated PWR's commercially and in the Navy and have withheld commenting because my knowledge of BWR's is pretty limited. But I do know that a 72 hour (plus) loss of all AC power is one heck of a challenge, and we can only hope for the best.