Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 03/15/2011 7:39:54 PM PDT by Mr. K
I saw it fifteen minutes ago on CNN. It’s also on Drudge. This doesn’t look good at all.
“I agree. From what people have posted, as long as the containment building is intact, then it is just a question of time before the core will cool. “
None of us on this board know what is going on there. And very few of us have a technical background to properly understand very much of this.
However the huge concern from what I have heard, would be the building with the spent fuel rods. It has no concrete to cover and contain radiation particles.
That seems like a a very dangerous situation potentially. Maybe the Achilles heel in this situation.
After reading comments regarding this issue for the past few days here and other places, I’ve come to the conclusion the greatest impediment to nuclear power is human hubris.
We’re too arrogant to get it right.
A nine iron and some Coppertone?
No. Help means much more than just sending in people. Way to rush to judgment newbie.
Understand that the US Government has arrays of computers and supercomputers to crunch data, do simulations, as well as other things.
Real time monitoring by satellite is one means of addressing this situation.
If you don't understand about this, in the Gulf War of 1990, the US used satellites to look for infared signatures of SCUD missile launches. That was done by satellites.
Saying anything beyond that gets into the classified aspect of our intelligence via satellites...
Prayers lifted.
Problem is not the reactors at this point. It’s the spent fuel pools - which contain several cores of fuel - which are open to the atmosphere - and which are on fire or soon will be.
The news conference he said they didn’t know which one as they had to abandoned plant post haste. Current TV footage from helicopter shows large white smoke and or steam plume.
They threw out idea of using military aircraft to fly over and drop boric acid to slow fission.
The robots refused because it was too dangerous for them...
Twitter is saying its the #3 reactor, thats the Plutonium one.
Sounds like there’s plenty of residual heat, and combustion is obviously a problem. But there may not be anything more that they can do that will help matters at point perhaps.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Why build an impregnable containment vessel and then do something as stupid as this?
workers pulled back not abandoned
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RT @HirokoTabuchi
Contrary to some reports, a core group of workers remain at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. It is not abandoned.
Hyperion Power Module.
It is self regulating and requires no active (human control) or pumps to cool it. It’s a similar type of reactor as most universities have.
Also, Generation III reactors are passivly cooled, so this would not happen with them either.
IF the plants are in cold shut down maybe there is nthing else to do.
However you obviously have a radiation leak which forced the workers out. That can’t be part of the plan. If there is some loss of control and heat leads to a meltdown we are on to Plan B.
Thing pissing me off is even the “experts” on tv can’t show you a chart and what is probably going on. CNN has an MIT jerk on who talks in generalities and just wants to say “not good news” etc but he has no specifics at all.
“Contrary to some reports, a core group of workers remain at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. It is not abandoned. “
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