To: Iris7
Now that we have seen the Fukushima example, where even back-up generator problem can lead to a catastrophe, the fear now is that something worse can happen in NK nuke installation because they run the whole place without regard for minimal safety mechanism(it costs lots of money.) Not just high casualty figure at the installation but reactor breach and meltdown which can send far more radiation into air than Fukushima nuclear plant has done.
10 posted on
04/20/2011 7:44:22 PM PDT by
TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They are probably running graphite moderated plutonium breeding reactors without real containments and without sufficient control safeguards. The USA did this in the 1940’s and early 1950’s at Hanford Oregon and never had a real problem outside of dumping a few million curies of radio isotopes into the Columbia River. The lads in those days were very careful.
The British cut corners to far in their graphite moderated breeder program resulting in the Windscale fire of 1957. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
Probably the NK breeder program make Chernobyl look like a model of prudent engineering. (Chernobyl was a big graphite moderated plutonium breeder built first for weapons material production and second for electrical generation and district heating.)
11 posted on
04/22/2011 11:46:04 PM PDT by
Iris7
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