Posted on 05/10/2021 2:58:08 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Hit it with a burst of anti-matter to cancel out the fusion process.
This won’t go or end well, once again.
Why didn’t they paint a coat of flexseal over that concrete shelter? No water ever get to that stuff. I’ve seen it on TV!
China Syndrome?
They cannot get close enough to install sensors to get accurate readings. That is so boring and scary that there is that much radio activity going on, and it is increasing, they may have buried it, but it has not gone away.
Quick, we need more boron.
As much as I am inclined to favor nuclear power, Chernobyl is a lingering disaster, plus the Japanese are pumping radioactive water into the ocean, both of these disasters are still underway. We have been very lucky in the US, Even though we have been affected by the radiation.
Is "wink out" the scientific term?
It’s only 3.5 roentgen.
bkmk
Nukes are OK, but I’d rather see Nat Gas and low-sulfur Coal, in the mix.
U-238 in the fuel upon neutron capture from fission of U-235 create U-239 which decays by two beta particle emissions to Pu-239. Plutonium 239 produces fewer “delayed” neutrons when it fissions than U-235, so the reactor breeds its own more reactive fuel. This was the limiting factor of core life in the 1970s Naval Nuclear Power plants. The Pu-239 built up and the reactor was no longer controllable on delayed neutrons.
Not good, not terrible.
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“As much as I am inclined to favor nuclear power, “
I think one of the problems with nuclear power is that nobody wants a small project*. Every project has to cost billions of dollars so that politicians can bring more jobs to their state and give out more contracts. The result is they are huge and when there’s an accident, by definition it’s massive. We have to use tons of concrete and more tons of steel. Yet, you can more a sub next to an island and power a city and the whole rest of the place and the reactor would fit in the average living room.
There are now much safer designs and, if we could build more and smaller reactors, we could even “float” them so they’d be immune to earthquakes.
* The “Nobody wants a small project” syndrome is all over the military. It’s much easier to get a huge boondoggle funded, like, for example, Future Combat Systems, or the Littoral Combat Ship, than it is to get a small footprint, portable anti drone system funded. Yet, the drone concept has much more potential to save lives than the FCS or LCS has a chance of working. (I was on both projects and virtually everyone I talked to knew they would both fail, long before they were over. LCS still exists only because Congress won’t let the Navy mothball the turkeys.)
Hey, does LCS construction employed lots of people. Isn’t that more important than having a ship that can stop a 50 caliber bullet?
Keith Richards and a bucket of FlexSeal should be able to fix that right up! Then they can send in social workers.
Exxon Valdez, Fires Of Kuwait, etc were terrible too, but we continue to use oil.
Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc were built with now-obvious flaws we won’t repeat.
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