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Reactor at Hanford SCRAMMED...

Posted on 03/29/2016 11:08:55 AM PDT by djf

One of the nuclear reactors at Hanford has had a scram. That means the cooling failed and the reactor automatically shut down.

The news reports say they are checking it out and will restart when it's safe.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: chinasyndome; crisis; hanford; nuclearplant; scram; washington
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To: djf
No big deal. It is the first UNPLANNED shutdown in six years.

I live real close to the reactor.

61 posted on 03/29/2016 12:07:04 PM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: djf
Nuclear power plant near Richland unexpectedly shut down
62 posted on 03/29/2016 12:08:40 PM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: TexasGator

When I was Plant Hatch (GE BWR) we had a SCRAM for the reason I stated.

The point is, there are lots of reasons for a scram and not in of itself a reason for panic.


63 posted on 03/29/2016 12:10:57 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: corkoman

64 posted on 03/29/2016 12:11:15 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Gamecock

Washington State east of the Cascade Mountains


65 posted on 03/29/2016 12:12:28 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: djf

Could have been a false scram by maintenance personnel. If the personnel scram, then you should get worried.


66 posted on 03/29/2016 12:12:52 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Ted Cruz was the man!)
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To: elcid1970

Not bad. But I would note that the concentration of fissionable material in a reactor is such that it cannot possibly cause a nuclear explosion. The un-concentrated fuel itself provides enough space and moderation between the fissionable nuclei to ensure that the reaction cannot happen fast enough to create a nuclear explosion.

Explosions in nuclear plants are from water flashing into steam or from the buildup of hydrogen gas.


67 posted on 03/29/2016 12:12:54 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Admit you were conned / This means you are good and honest / There's no shame in this)
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To: djf

68 posted on 03/29/2016 12:16:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

One of the funniest parts was when they told Garret Morris to go in there and mop up that water on the floor. That was one of my favorite SNL skits.


69 posted on 03/29/2016 12:17:23 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: showme_the_Glory

Laurel and Hardy Scram 1932 in (((Color)))colour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VNPHznbKy4


70 posted on 03/29/2016 12:18:48 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: showme_the_Glory

"Hi, everybody. As First Lady, I'd like to say I have nothing against nuclear power, honey. It's the best thing that ever happened to me."

71 posted on 03/29/2016 12:19:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dp0622

Scram

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram


72 posted on 03/29/2016 12:20:53 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: djf

So in other words it worked as designed?


73 posted on 03/29/2016 12:20:59 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Spunky

Thanks.


74 posted on 03/29/2016 12:22:03 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: djf

It’s a damn shame we don’t have molten salt thorium reactors, those things can be scrammed by just turning off the power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor


75 posted on 03/29/2016 12:23:32 PM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: steve86

Hey, I live in Horn Rapids and my warning alarm did not go off. Should it have?


76 posted on 03/29/2016 12:23:39 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: djf

Who’s got a picture of Johnny pulling the plug? “Just kidding!”


77 posted on 03/29/2016 12:24:38 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Billthedrill; shotgun
"There’s a sort of amusing story about them wanting to reuse the land over a couple of warmish areas by putting a shopping center there, and then when people pointed out that it might be a bit of a risk of exposure they changed the plan to be a golf course. The plan got trash-canned. By golfers."

I have lived here for 50 yrs. or more. Never heard of that plan. They DID however build a golf course and now there are hotels etc; over what used to be the sewage treatment plant, which was called the Rose Bowl, because it was painted a pinkish color. That is just as you enter into Richland on George Washington Way.

78 posted on 03/29/2016 12:30:35 PM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: djf
We are now a historical site.

Hanford Site Public Tours

79 posted on 03/29/2016 12:35:43 PM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: Spunky

I worked for the City of Richland when they planned that development. Where the old Sham-Na-Pum golf course driving range was located was used as an old garbage dump site and they did find some hazardous stuff there but nothing radioactive


80 posted on 03/29/2016 12:36:45 PM PDT by shotgun
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