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@elainekirk2001 Erm... so it's "all better now"?? WTFby Meretisa 3/26/2011 6:16:28 PM
@Sky I agree Sky, in 3 generations we have wreak havoc on this world and it seems that for every tech solution there is 10 new problems. Where does it end?by George Gibb 3/26/2011 6:16:45 PM
shaking my head at TEPCO..by Dean 3/26/2011 6:16:59 PM
I did some reading on the Mark 1 BWRs after this all started. Not amused to find out that I have lived within 5 miles of 2 of them (Monticello MN and Pathfinder). After what I have seen & read that design and MOX fuel really needs to be rethought as far as continued use.by Nancy 3/26/2011 6:17:22 PM- next they will be broadcast a startup date to get back on line next month...by Dean 3/26/2011 6:17:25 PM
- lolby George Gibb 3/26/2011 6:17:34 PM
- LOL Dean.by Nancy 3/26/2011 6:17:39 PM
Better read this one on Daiichi: www.tepco.co.jp
The link provided by elaine is of daini (shutdown)by Petra 3/26/2011 6:17:41 PM
@Meretisa @Dean @elainekirk2001 Daini Nuclear Power Station (as of 9:00 pm March 26th)by NHK Listener 3/26/2011 6:17:55 PM- @elainekirk2001 That's the plant status of Daini, not Daiichi.by kb 3/26/2011 6:17:58 PM
- @Janis [opinion]-->" I do believe that there is no way the earth can continue idefinitely on the path we are on." I totally agree on that, may be that disaster help us to change the path, not for our children, but for our their children. I have run a lawmowner with 75%water for 3 years, so my oil was 33% only, for the same result. So there are possibilities. It's just up to us to make them happenby Future Isnow 3/26/2011 6:18:01 PM
- @ Tenzing: Sorry, I am only a mechanical engineer. The problem of polymers is in this case for instance the heat transport. There have been vehicle engine housings workug well mechanically. But they didn't transport heat very well. In fact there was a polymer housed engine. It destroyed itself because the bearings overheated due to the inability to transport heat. Don't now how polymers react to radiation.by Max 3/26/2011 6:18:10 PM
- I was around some testing done on the mox fuel and I was against it from the very beginning...by Dean 3/26/2011 6:18:12 PM
- They could hire Baghdad Bob to do PR.by Nancy 3/26/2011 6:18:37 PM
- @Dean- you are a wise man... obviously you'd see the danger.by Meretisa 3/26/2011 6:18:43 PM
- Ok for those conspiracy enthusiasts read thisby George Gibb 3/26/2011 6:19:22 PM
- by George Gibb 3/26/2011 6:19:30 PM
- haha, the only Tepco news on Daiichi is:
"At approximately 4:46 pm on March 26nd, the light in the main control
room was turned on. "by Petra 3/26/2011 6:19:34 PM - I only wish that the rest of these idiots would stop looking at the money and look at the danger. Just sayingby Meretisa 3/26/2011 6:19:41 PM
Has anyone talked about ceramics for encasing?by Patrick Kelley 3/26/2011 6:19:48 PM
Janis, ditto. @ElaineKirk: It's just documentation aka CYA.by Karen Warren 3/26/2011 6:20:28 PM
@Nancy i140.photobucket.com
by NHK Listener via I140.photobucket 3/26/2011 6:20:32 PM- @Patrick Kelley I would think its to brittle - especially in that areaby George Gibb 3/26/2011 6:20:44 PM
- There are some new ceramics out nowby Patrick Kelley 3/26/2011 6:21:05 PM
- question: has anyone looked at what the release of all that steam is doing to the jetstream/weather. Not saying anything about the particles or whathaveyou, but hte HEAT... could it cause weather phenomena globally? Just wonderingby Meretisa 3/26/2011 6:21:31 PM
- My father has said something to the like (one of the top molecular chemists in the world)by Patrick Kelley 3/26/2011 6:21:31 PM
- ceramics was interesting.. that's how they were going to encapsulate nuclear waste and then send it off to storageby Dean 3/26/2011 6:21:37 PM
@dean: I think MOX is just all about money. The idea is that using uranium and plutonium from reprocessing * reduces the amount of waste to store (especially plutonium which is quite dangerous...) * reduces the volume of new uranium to buy (from Niger in case of France)by Jo Lindien 3/26/2011 6:21:51 PM- There are some pretty amazing fundamental elements coming out of the ceramics department, I don't know about $$$ and availability, I worry that the scale of this is just.... too much.by Patrick Kelley 3/26/2011 6:22:42 PM
- true... Jo..by Dean 3/26/2011 6:22:47 PM
- @Jo Lindien and that a Huge market, with all the nuclear weapons that must been desactivated.by Future Isnow 3/26/2011 6:23:16 PM
- Doesn't ceramics isolate well. They're used extensively where temperature isolation is an issue - or am I wrong?by Max 3/26/2011 6:23:21 PM
- hey one thing I wish that all reactors were not for profit... maybe that would help.. the big companies in utilities are all about the big bucks and stock holders in the companies..by Dean 3/26/2011 6:23:25 PM
@Dean, no kidding, there are two blocks at the plant that seem to have survived intact. At Chernobyl, the remaining three blocks remained in use until the year 2000 or so. It is the need for electricity that will drive them.by Peter Melzer 3/26/2011 6:23:30 PM- @Peter Melzer- how they could continue working at Chernobyl is beyond me. The dangers to the workers... no one cared... it is all about the money, the electricity, the "way of life" over the lives of the people. We as a species need to change our outlook.by Meretisa 3/26/2011 6:24:59 PM
- @max: no, ceramics does not isolate well. It's used because it resists to very high temperatures. But, as far as I know, it does not resist well to shocks.by Jo Lindien 3/26/2011 6:25:00 PM
- Check this out. www.sciencedaily.comby Patrick Kelley 3/26/2011 6:25:21 PM
- @by Jo Lindien 3/26/2011 6:25:46 PM
@Dean ..how much you want to bet that the bankruptcy filing is already being worked on at TEPCO's lawyers?by MaryMary 3/26/2011 6:25:50 PM- (not that we need that just as a reference)by Patrick Kelley 3/26/2011 6:26:38 PM
- I read something last week that claimed the reason we have no new nuke plants in the US is because the cost to make/run vs. the profit from power generation wasn't worth it. If this is the case it would also explain all of those very old Mark 1 plants still being in use and licensed far beyond their shutdown dates.by Nancy 3/26/2011 6:27:02 PM
- I heard bloomberg devalued their stocksby Dean 3/26/2011 6:27:09 PM
- the people of japan will never look on nuclear the same againby Dean 3/26/2011 6:28:04 PM
- @Future: I fear that military grade plutonium might be too dangerous to be used in MOX fuel; maybe in breeder reactor, if they once succeed to have one running ?by Jo Lindien 3/26/2011 6:28:13 PM
- @Meretisa, that is beyond me, too. How did they protect the operators, if nobody was allowed to live near there?by Peter Melzer 3/26/2011 6:28:17 PM
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