Nuclear Meltdown?
Mar 11th 2011 | 8:14 pm
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
Mar 11th 2011 | 8:23 pm
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Mar 11th 2011 | 8:26 pm
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
Looking pretty bleak explosion shouldn't be happening that would certainly indicate something out of control.
There was an article somewhere there are eighty one employees in the power plant they were trying to evacuate after the quake then the tsunami hit and they saw the debri washing past them and knocked out the backup generators. Some American guy working there his wife gave the report from us+a
Mar 11th 2011 | 9:07 pm
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
If #5 has happened
"Video of the reactor in question shows the outer wall of the building that houses the reactor has disappeared."
"Video of the reactor in question shows the outer wall of the building that houses the reactor has disappeared."
Mar 11th 2011 | 9:14 pm
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
Hopefully this will put paid to the idea that nuclear is the answer to global warming.
Mar 11th 2011 | 9:26 pm
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
This looks like a hydrogen/oxygen explosion blowing part of the building apart. That's basically at the Three Mile Island level of event - the Chernobyl level isn't on the cards because the design does work that way. Meltdown it might, but that makes it less good at generating heat - cooling it down; its built with these types of negative feedback loop as passive safety through design.
Building new reactors is part of the solution, so you don't have to keep operating 40 year old designs like this.
Mar 11th 2011 | 9:40 pm
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
Hopefully it won't.
This looks like a hydrogen/oxygen explosion blowing part of the building apart. That's basically at the Three Mile Island level of event - the Chernobyl level isn't on the cards because the design does work that way. Meltdown it might, but that makes it less good at generating heat - cooling it down; its built with these types of negative feedback loop as passive safety through design.
Building new reactors is part of the solution, so you don't have to keep operating 40 year old designs like this.
This looks like a hydrogen/oxygen explosion blowing part of the building apart. That's basically at the Three Mile Island level of event - the Chernobyl level isn't on the cards because the design does work that way. Meltdown it might, but that makes it less good at generating heat - cooling it down; its built with these types of negative feedback loop as passive safety through design.
Building new reactors is part of the solution, so you don't have to keep operating 40 year old designs like this.
Ah OK, it's just a core meltdown. Thanks for the re-assurance Einstein.
When can we get one of these built here in Perth?
Mar 11th 2011 | 9:41 pm
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Mar 11th 2011 | 9:48 pm
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Mar 11th 2011 | 10:08 pm
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
So you disparage the person who knows what he's talking about, then say what must rank as one of the dumbest comments uttered outside the american bible belt.
As a matter of interest, I've looked closely at the explosion and it seems very much as if this was a sudden gas overpressure explosion that only took out the top half of the building. It looks very much as if its the vaporised water that vented inside the containment building took the top off it due to a hydrogen explosion. That in itself wouldn't point to damage to the reactor vessel.
Mar 11th 2011 | 10:18 pm
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
Hopefully it won't.
This looks like a hydrogen/oxygen explosion blowing part of the building apart. That's basically at the Three Mile Island level of event - the Chernobyl level isn't on the cards because the design does work that way. Meltdown it might, but that makes it less good at generating heat - cooling it down; its built with these types of negative feedback loop as passive safety through design.
Building new reactors is part of the solution, so you don't have to keep operating 40 year old designs like this.
This looks like a hydrogen/oxygen explosion blowing part of the building apart. That's basically at the Three Mile Island level of event - the Chernobyl level isn't on the cards because the design does work that way. Meltdown it might, but that makes it less good at generating heat - cooling it down; its built with these types of negative feedback loop as passive safety through design.
Building new reactors is part of the solution, so you don't have to keep operating 40 year old designs like this.
