Some really, really important coolant.
Posted on 03/11/2011 8:32:57 AM PST by BenLurkin
The United States has transported coolant to a Japanese nuclear plant affected by a massive earthquake and will continue to assist Japan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
"We just had our Air Force assets in Japan transport some really important coolant to one of the nuclear plants," Clinton said at a meeting of the President's Export Council.
A good number of countries that tried to provide assistance after Katrina were blown-off by the U.S. And then you had the Alex Jones-types claiming we were under attack by them.
Lemme see if I unnerstand what you sayin’ Notsure. You wanna put water on our plants. Toilet water.
For the smartest man in the world you sure say some dumb s***.
As I stated, the only issue is restoring electrical power to move water through the reactor core.
Some really, really important coolant.
You mean water??????
Yeah, by destroying our machine tool industry.
You are right. I think she’s high.
Water? You mean like in a toilet?
Small potatos.
What we really need are reparations for karaeoke.
the only apparent issue
very odd statement by Rodham’s handlers, then
If we sent generators why not say “we sent generators”
maybe she meant “we sent very important coolant system equipment”
(ie, “generators”)
But Jeez, how many generators does it take to pump enough water to keep 2 nuc reactors cooled down? Is this hugh and series?
This ridiculous news to one side, have any of the so-called environmentalists noticed that even a massive earthquake has not caused the Japanese reactor to melt down, sink through the Earth’s core, blow up in a huge mushroom cloud, release Godzilla, or any of the other hysterical disasters they’re always conjuring up to prevent us from building more of them?
Just asking.
The reactor core couldn’t sink through the Earth’s core over there because China is already on that side of the world. /s
This is just a flat out lie she pulled straight out of her a$$.
She is so ignorant about industrial processes she can’t even make up a good lie.
I’ll give my next paycheck to Jesse Jackson’s organization if someone can provide proof this is not a lie.
The reactors in question are boiling water reactors. They don’t have steam generators. The reports indicate that the diesel generators, which are in place to supply power to pumps and such in the event that power cannot be drawn from the grid, did not work. I can imagine many reasons why they might failed. A report earlier in this thread said that new diesel generators are being sent to the plant.
The United States of America has not been out of debt since it was founded.
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo1.htm
01/01/1791 75,463,476.52
2nd that.
q = m-dot x Cp x delta T
They’re not getting any m-dot if the pumps aren’t running because the emergency diesel generators aren’t running.
I wonder if we really delivered a generator or three. It is the sort of thing that would be readily available at a U.S. air base, and you could probably land a C-130 somewhere close by the plant.
It’s not the pumps, it’s how much power is required to run them? Generally generators are not the most efficient long term sources of power for equipment that draws a lot of power
This is on Drudge now, sounds bad - but then, the MEdia are seeking out interviews from the anti-nuke lobby, who are happily providing dire scenarios
Well, there goes the nuc industry, obamites will use this situation happily as an excuse to shut down even more of the US power industry
I'd give American unions some credit for that, as well.
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