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Do you know where your core is?


19 posted on 06/12/2011 8:28:19 PM PDT by Razzz42
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Do you know where your core is?

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Do you know where your cores are ?

Ground water radiation level spikes are not a good indicator that they do.

24 posted on 06/12/2011 11:20:20 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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Wherever it is it has to be tracked down and found.


27 posted on 06/13/2011 5:45:57 AM PDT by bvw
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Do you know where your core is?

If this is the 4th floor pictured, then the reactor containment and core are below. There was no fuel in the unit 4 reactor core - it was off line for maintenance and evaluation. The spent fuel pool is, I think, on this floor. They generally onload and offload fuel into the reactor from the top through a large access "lid". The crane removes the fuel, and then sets it down into the spent fuel pool on the same floor. Pretty efficient design providing a 45 foot tsunami doesn't wipe out all of your power supplies.

39 posted on 06/13/2011 1:31:18 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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