Japan Earthquake

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i wish we could see that blast in thermal imaging
by dean 7/19/2011 3:12:06 AM

Areva is using Japan as a dumping ground for fuel that the french people will not let them use in France.
by Ralph Unger 7/19/2011 3:13:00 AM

We're looking for a yellow cap. Maybe it's inside out. ;) I go with 4 in that case.
by RadioGuy 7/19/2011 3:13:25 AM

@Ralph Unger It seems a lot of that went around. Weren't they replacing the shroud in R4 to fix the defect the original contractor just glossed over?
by RadioGuy 7/19/2011 3:14:47 AM

Ralph.. I'm trying to figure out who ends up with the worst WASTE...japan sends their fuel to france to have areva make MOX fuel which they burn up and have to store.... or france to gets the fuel from japan and ends up with waste
by dean 7/19/2011 3:15:08 AM

Shroud? reactor dw cover? @Dean, I am pretty sure the waste comes back with the reprocessed fuel.
by Ralph Unger 7/19/2011 3:16:06 AM

@Cat , impressive, could be. Heck, I would not be surprised that one day in many years we would get to see a very deep black crater.
by Peter Melzer 7/19/2011 3:16:11 AM

@RadioGuy the flaw is in the RPV wall itself. The shroud replace was part of trying to continue to run the old reactors or possibly putting MOX in them. The new shrouds are sort of like putting shiny new rims on a 1979 Ford Pinto
by lillymunster 7/19/2011 3:16:43 AM

Do you think the French take care of it? Lemme look it up, I did read an article about it a few weeks ago.
by Ralph Unger 7/19/2011 3:17:24 AM

@dean , the Japanese just brokered a deal with Mongolia to take their waste for end storage.
by Peter Melzer 7/19/2011 3:17:49 AM

I live in Vallejo. I saw spinners on a Hyundai the other day.
by RadioGuy 7/19/2011 3:18:02 AM

@Ralph Unger IIRC they send everything back. I think some of the waste came back in the glass encasement?
by lillymunster 7/19/2011 3:18:17 AM

And they looked like they may have cost more than the car.
by RadioGuy 7/19/2011 3:18:34 AM

@ Peter I would love to have heard that sales presentation..
by dean 7/19/2011 3:18:44 AM

From 1969-90 there were more than 160 shipments of used nuclear reactor fuel from Japan to Europe.
Reprocessing of the Japanese used fuel has been undertaken in UK and France under contract with Japanese utilities.
Recovered fissile materials are returned to Japan as reactor fuel, notably as mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.
The first shipment to Japan of immobilised high-level waste from reprocessing took place in 1995 and the 12th and last one from France was in 2007. www.world-nuclear.org
by Ralph Unger 7/19/2011 3:18:47 AM

@RadioGuy tennis shoe tires with spinners on big 4WD trucks - the definition of fail.
by lillymunster 7/19/2011 3:18:57 AM

they probably dump it into the ocean and make a profit..
by dean 7/19/2011 3:20:26 AM

@RadioGuy makes me LOL every time I see one.
by lillymunster 7/19/2011 3:21:56 AM

OK, now wait. Let me get a grip on this. They ship the transuranic wastes to a country that we fought for decades to keep from giving nuclear materials. How times change.
by RadioGuy 7/19/2011 3:22:36 AM

Out of sight out of mind. It's how we roll these days.
by RadioGuy 7/19/2011 3:23:52 AM

@RadioGuy See I have all this really dangerous stuff so I think I will ship it half way around the world to someone else and then have them ship it all back!
by lillymunster 7/19/2011 3:25:09 AM

times do change.. mongolia in the deal .. gets a reactor.. however.. THEY have the largest uranium deposits it says "Especially since it possesses big uranium prospects, which are estimated as the biggest in the world. If Mongolia could mine and use it, “they could be as rich as middle east countries that have benefited from their oil and natural gas”, says a top official of Japan’s Ministry of Economic, Trade and Industry.
by dean 7/19/2011 3:26:46 AM

A little background story on Mongolia: www.mongolianviews.com . I am still digging for the treaty with Japan.
by Peter Melzer 7/19/2011 3:27:10 AM

if nuclear power continues why not control the largest uranium mine..
by dean 7/19/2011 3:27:16 AM

Some of these foreign deals are going south. The one between Japan and Jordan fell apart.
by lillymunster 7/19/2011 3:27:53 AM

I should have posted a link when I first posted about waste. I am in the middle of a Star Trek marathon so I am being a bit lazy. That also explains all my typos.
by Ralph Unger 7/19/2011 3:28:02 AM