And yet the crazies complain about the emergency reactor cooling system. Sorry for the blurry image, but the photo was taken from a "safe" distance.
Posted on 03/18/2011 11:13:39 AM PDT by brityank
Does a certain Freddd come to mind?
Which begs the question-do I need to be concerned about the tritium night sights on my pistol that I carry most every day and sleep with underneath my pillow at night?
Yep. People who intentionally flamed the panic should not be here. I counted three. He was just the Alpha flaming hair. ;-)
If you make one, please ping me! I’d like to see that.
There is not a media panic.
The media it must be remembered that the media is the propaganda arm of the left wing. The left wing is in danger of losing the hard won no nucs ground. The hype is to regain that ground by scaring the hell out of the public. It is that simple
It worked after the non disaster at Three Mile Island and they will try their damndest to make it work again. The press is the enemy of America
Worse than Al Qeada by far.
I thi nk you need to think of it like this -
Class one disaster - the guys are going to get the right things done.
Shoot - we overnight parts for basic things -
I believe - in this case - the problem is that the water supply was messed up by the Tsunami. Not that they could not re-establish pumping -= but that - there was nothing to pump.
Put it this way - if your solution were feasible - it woul dhave been done in 6 hours or less.
“Many of us lived through Tsar Bomba. Unless things really deteriorate, Daiichi’s radiation release will be a small fraction of that of Tsar Bomba.”
Indeed. They scaled it down to 50 Megatons......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxD44HO8dNQ
If only that were a picture of Mecca! Sigh. Well, I can at least dream, can’t I?
Dream away noob.......and get a clue.
I know. It was mostly to tweak the Sheps amongst us. ;)
“CANDU reactors if they run out of water will simply shut down.”
LOL. If it would be that simple. CANDU does also produce decay heat. Decay heat was the problem in TMI and in Fukushima reacters and the decaypools.
As the instructors at Naval Nuclear Power School would state: Gross Conceptual Error.
Both the CANDU and light water reactors (such as the GE BWR and naval PWRs) would shut down without water. Water does two things in those reactors: It acts as the coolant and it acts as the moderator.
Both functions are accomplished by the coolant in BWRs and PWRs. The CANDU requires heavy water as a moderator however, and separates the water used for coolant and the heavy water used as a moderator.
Both types of reactors will shut down without a moderator. Both types of reactors will melt down without a coolant. (Therefore, you wouldn't want to drain the moderator out of a BWR or PWR to shut it down! Instead, insert control rods to absorb neutrons.)
In summary, it wasn't heat generated by fission that melted the Japanese reactors, it was the decay heat that did it in. A CANDU would have the same decay heat issues without cooling.
Your point is well taken. Please excuse my posting on the matter.
“We set off A-bombs in Nevada and H-bombs in the Pacific! We are all still here!” What’s the few pounds of radioactive material in a bomb compared to the tons of nuclear fuel in a reactor ?
I was thinking of thorium reactors.... I feel like a yutz now....
“It was hype, and you were suckered. Go back and make a filter to filter out those sources of information int he future. They have no credibility.”
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It worked after the non disaster at Three Mile Island and they will try their damndest to make it work again. The press is the enemy of America
It's to our detriment that there are so few mass media outlets for the honest, unadulterated truth. Sure there's Rush Limbaugh and other voices but they are largely confined to AM radio.
The print media and television are either controlled by or under the thumb of leftists. Even Fox isn't necessarily a reliable source for factual information.
I think that an honest evaluation (sans leftist spin) of what transpired in Japan still leads to a strongly pro-nuclear energy viewpoint. Nuclear power plants are but one way to produce domestic energy and reduce our need for importing oil from the Muzzie countries. American natural gas, petroleum, hydroelectric and nuclear are all components of a winning strategy.
Drill baby drill and frac baby frac and build baby build!
And yet the crazies complain about the emergency reactor cooling system. Sorry for the blurry image, but the photo was taken from a "safe" distance.
It may have been a "non-disaster", but Three Mile Island Unit #2 had been on line only thirteen months. The reactor vessel and a containment building were unusable (never again functioned). Cleanup started in August 1979 and ended in December 1993, with a total cleanup cost of $ 1 billion.
We lost the power plant and spent a billion on clean up. Hardly a success story.
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