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@dean those videos are wild. Is the transformer burning the oil in it or burning up something else. It looked like there was the constant electrical arc and a fire.
We had a pole transformer (smaller than those) about 30 feet from our house. It would trip about once a year when a squirrel ran across the connections. It sounded like a bomb going off with a huge blinding flash.by lillymunster 2/2/2012 2:35:54 AM
@lillymunster just looked at websites uranium supply & as far as I can see Russia's signing deals to supply the US & Europe so the premise of his argument is rubbishby UKVal 2/2/2012 2:39:31 AM
the San Onofre raidation leak problems were the lead story on tonight's ABC Evening News. abcnews.go.comby RonD 2/2/2012 2:41:04 AM
@lilly.. it was called a flashover which kept burningby dean 2/2/2012 2:41:36 AM- @RonD Isn't that exactly what happened last time San Onofre had an emergency?by lillymunster 2/2/2012 2:43:49 AM
- as far as MOX goes I suspect it'll be the UK & France who pursue this till the bitter end ( and it will be bitter) -don't hold out much hope for stopping the push for nuclear here & we have huge stockpiles of fuel to recycle...by UKVal 2/2/2012 2:45:25 AM
- @dean once the arc occurs between power lines, the ionized air provides a low resistance path and current keeps flowing. Air is a good insulator until you get an arc. youtube has lots of Jacob's Ladder videos. www.youtube.comby RonD 2/2/2012 2:46:00 AM
- true @ Rlonby dean 2/2/2012 2:46:32 AM
- @dean I'm glad I work with computers where high voltage is 1.1 volt and high power is 10-20 watts.by RonD 2/2/2012 2:49:55 AM
- hey you can buy colourful wall charts of lots of reactors from across the world from here: www.neimagazine.com just the thing to hang on your bedroom wall & give you sweet dreamsby UKVal 2/2/2012 2:53:34 AM
- @UKVal the NEI is so technically advanced you need to email them with your phone number so they can call you and write down your credit card number to pay for them before they mail them out.by lillymunster 2/2/2012 2:57:10 AM
- @lillymunster oh that's a classic!by UKVal 2/2/2012 2:58:01 AM
- nite allby UKVal 2/2/2012 3:00:22 AM
- Breaking News: Large # meteor with Sonic Boom Reported in # Texas . KTVT Dallas- # fbby lillymunster 2/2/2012 3:11:19 AM
- New Japan sea contamination models www.jamstec.go.jpby lillymunster 2/2/2012 3:17:38 AM
- TIME FOR REST.. NITE ALLby dean 2/2/2012 3:23:12 AM
- @lillymunster "Fireball in Texas sky was meteor, FAA says" WFAA received more than 200 reports Wednesday night from people who said they saw what appeared to be a meteor streaking across the North Texas sky shortly after 8 o'clock. www.wfaa.comby RonD 2/2/2012 3:25:44 AM
by Ian 2/2/2012 6:09:58 AM
good morningby elainekirk 2/2/2012 10:24:20 AM- new mox stored in #3 sfp fukushima-diary.comby elainekirk 2/2/2012 10:32:40 AM
@elainekirk hi elaine pleased to meet you.by Edano 2/2/2012 12:16:59 PM- @Edano greetinds edanoby elainekirk 2/2/2012 12:20:12 PM
- @elainekirk freezing in nessieland ?by Edano 2/2/2012 12:20:41 PM
- we have -15°C today.by Edano 2/2/2012 12:21:38 PM
- @Edano well frozenby elainekirk 2/2/2012 12:22:13 PM
- Fukushima farmers furious over lack of consideration in decontamination subsidies mdn.mainichi.jpby lillymunster 2/2/2012 1:01:47 PM
- San Onofre was the lead story on TV
national news this morningby lillymunster 2/2/2012 1:02:05 PM - 1,704 people seek shutdown of Genkai nuclear plant in largest group suit mdn.mainichi.jp
NRC Concerned About Seismic Activity Around Nuclear Reactors www.wnyc.orgby lillymunster 2/2/2012 1:06:01 PM - Piping at Fukushima reactor found insufficient to withstand quake
Piping and support structures at the No. 5 reactor of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant did not have sufficient anti-quake strength under new government standards revised in 2006.
Some of the equipment could have been hit with a force as much as 4.3 times above safety standards if an earthquake of a scale forecast for the plant had struck.
ajw.asahi.com
This is big. Unit 5 is the last BWR mark 1 built there and the building itself has improved design against quakes but they say the main cooling pipe would have failed under 2006 standards? That doesn't bode well for the old units.by lillymunster 2/2/2012 1:07:44 PM - You couldnt make it up -our local paper quotes a professor
The public image of nulcear power continues to lack a licence to thrill as a direct result of classic James Bond villains, it has been claimed.
The hostile masterminds from the much loved 007 movies are being blamed for causing a 'long lasting shadow' over the image of nuclear power, according to the president of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
However, Professor David Phillips has said that the image stemmed back to Dr. No, with his personal nuclear reactor, which led to a 'remorselessly grim' view held by many of atomic energy.
.by elainekirk 2/2/2012 1:21:35 PM - @elainekirk oh of course. It has nothing to do with the total lack of decent safety or the long string of bad accidents.by lillymunster 2/2/2012 1:28:16 PM
- @Elaine did you see this in the article I posted?
However, confirmation of anti-quake capabilities and reinforcement work have not yet been completed.
Remember TEPCO's BS quake fixes after the 2007 quake. This is so typically TEPCOby lillymunster 2/2/2012 1:29:01 PM - Interesting note on unit 5. It was actually started before unit 4 and was designed by Toshiba. Unit 6 was designed by Ebasco. So the design changes to 5 & 6's concrete shell but not done to unit 4 is curious.
@all - if anyone finds old images inside unit 5 that we don't already have those would be useful.by lillymunster 2/2/2012 2:00:40 PM 
Julian Assange extradition appeal: Final day. The court has adjourned for lunch. Defence seems to be gaining momentum.by Pedro Jesus 2/2/2012 2:19:13 PM- @Pedro Jesus good to hear. maybe a loss here by prosecution will get the US to back off.by lillymunster 2/2/2012 2:22:56 PM
- by elainekirk 2/2/2012 2:33:40 PM
- by elainekirk 2/2/2012 2:36:10 PM
- That is under the SFP but on the ground level. But seems like they mean just the hoses are leaking. at least they bothered to use steel braid covered hose there!by lillymunster 2/2/2012 2:37:58 PM
www.tepco.co.jp
This is unit 5 and they have scaffolding up 26th Januaryby elainekirk via Tepco.co.jp 2/2/2012 2:38:27 PM
www.tepco.co.jp
operating floor unit 5 on 26th Januaryby elainekirk via Tepco.co.jp 2/2/2012 2:39:20 PM- @lillymunster The US should back off either way; Assange hasn't breached any American law since he is not American and doesn't work for any American agency pledged to secrecy regarding classified documents. All he's done so far (or that can be proven) is perfectly legal. They can't even shut down his website. He will prevail even if he stands trial for the allegations he's involved in, which I sincerely doubt will ever happen. If no charges have been pressed so far, despite Assange's willingness to be interrogated by Swedish authorities, via video conference, regarding the allegations, I don't see much chance that there will be any charges in the future regarding the alleged sex offences.by Pedro Jesus 2/2/2012 2:42:11 PM
www.tepco.co.jp
a lot of unit 5 pics here docs.google.comby elainekirk via Tepco.co.jp 2/2/2012 2:42:27 PM- @elainekirk Unit 5 looks pretty clean for a power plant. I'm quite surprised. Has TEPCO anticipated 2012's spring clean for the photo shoot?by Pedro Jesus 2/2/2012 2:44:33 PM
- @Pedro Jesus yeah very neat isnt itby elainekirk 2/2/2012 3:12:00 PM
- A very strong point for a new generation of nuclear power plants...
"We cannot wish Britain's nuclear waste away"
"Opponents of nuclear power who shout down suggestions of how to use spent waste as fuel will not make the problem disappear"
"A new generation of "fast" nuclear reactors could consume Britain's radioactive waste stockpile as fuel, providing enough low-carbon electricity to power the country for more than 500 years"
"The technology with the potential to solve these problems is the fast reactor, ideally the integral fast reactor (IFR)"
"We are confronted not just with a choice between nuclear power and gas or coal [...] but also with a choice between different nuclear technologies." (George Monbiot) www.guardian.co.ukby Pedro Jesus 2/2/2012 3:14:55 PM
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