Westinghouse must prove reactor can withstand catastrophes

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW ^ | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 | Joe Napsha

[RS_Rider]

Westinghouse Electric Co. must prove that the building it designed to shield its nuclear reactors can withstand natural disasters such as strong earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes before the reactors are approved for a Georgia power plant, a federal agency said yesterday.

[tet68]

Jump! Jump Higher! HIGHER!

[freedumb2003]

I wonder if Rove can get the Natural Disaster machine out of mothballs for a few hundred grand...

[Yossarian]

To ask this of a containment building is common sense.

However, when the article states:

The agency wants Westinghouse to design a structure that also can withstand a crash from a jet airliner,

I respond: "Islam, the religion of peace? (SPIT)"

[RS_Rider]

Once it passes for an airliner strike then it will have to pass for a combination airliner strike, RPG attack, tornado and 8.0 earthquake simultaneously.

[Vendome]

through rocks at it and see what happens

[kevao]

Rearden Metal.

[RS_Rider]

I wonder if the NRC will make this a requirement for re-licensing existing plants?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

One question I would like to ask about jet airliner crashes. It’s one thing to crash an airliner into the 110 story world trade center. How likely is it that an airliner could be piloted into a nuclear reactor? I mean, I guess they could design the building to withstand an assault by the Loch Ness Monster while they’re at it, but how likely is this to happen?

[Oceander]

Ahh, that would be the "dope" part of the game of rope-a-dope this fascist administration is playing with the energy industry. Here you go, permission to build - psych! - Here you go, permission to build - psych! - Here you go, .... ad nauseam.

[Knitebane]

...a dispensation by the Pope, a note from your mom, a core of Unobtanium alloy, covered with a pelt from a unicorn and balanced on a Democrat’s honor.

[DuncanWaring]

I thought containment buildings were always built to withstand a crash from a jet airliner.

[VeniVidiVici]

I’m sure the US government will finally approve the building of new nuke plants - in Mexico - and run the lines here.

Dumbasses.

[Mark was here]

Build the nuke plants in very deep places in the Great Lakes. Airliners can't get it, no submarines there, cooling is a piece of cake ... sounds like a plan.

[GraceG]

The Nukelophobia in this country is rampant and has been inflamed by Hollywood.

I fear for our future.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I thought containment buildings were always built to withstand a crash from a jet airliner.

It was built to withstand a crash for whatever jet liners existed when they wrote the initial specs in the 1960’s.
After 9-11 it emerged that they lacked confidence in what may happen if a modern widebody 747 or 767 were to hit one.

[freekitty]

Still beating Westinghouse into the ground I see.

[Boiler Plate]

The existing plants already meet these requirements. This is nothing new. Some of the existing plants along the coasts were designed to withstand a sixteen inch shell.

[GonzoGOP]

Westinghouse must prove reactor can withstand catastrophes

Like Obama getting elected?

[rottndog]

Trust me folks....there ain’t no plane on this planet that can penetrate reactor containment....even ones built to specs in the ‘60s.