Posted on 02/15/2022 10:18:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
As part of the clean-operations at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan, engineers sent down a remotely operated submarine into the bowels of Unit 1 on February 9, according to plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO).
When the catastrophe struck, Units 1, 2, and 3 were busy working and had fuel in their reactors. The tsunami knocked down the power sources and cooling systems used to control the temperature of the fuel, which resulted in a colossal amount of heat to melt the fuel and the reactor. Eventually, this melting slurry of radioactive fuel and equipment cooled down and solidified into the radioactive debris that the engineers are currently figuring out how to remove.
With the help of the robot submarine's camera, the team installed special guide rings around the building, which will help steer the path for future probes. The camera also managed to capture some snaps of nuclear fuel that melted and fell to the bottom of the damaged reactor.
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Right, but that link
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4038553/posts
explains that the plan is to treat it and dump it in the ocean.
(That actually is also mentioned briefly in the report I linked to.)
You presume that flooding is the only cause of loss of power.
All of these Mark 1 designs should have been replaced decades ago, not relicensed.
Not at all. Obviously, the grid (outside power) went down first. Plus the reactors were shut down. Batteries can't last forever. However, the generators in fact did kick in properly. The situation was stable until the tsunami arrived.
The Mark 1 designs and backups worked fine. The location was not well chosen, and idiots just put the backup generators in the wrong place. Later reviews found the generators' locations "incomprehensible".
All of these Mark 1 designs should have been replaced decades ago, not relicensed.
Fantasy. Replacements would never have been completed.
“Then there is that problem of where to send the spent fuel sitting in onsite cooling ponds everywhere.”
Elon will deliver it airmail express to El Sol, where it will join a big fusion party.
Denial is a warm blanket.
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