It’s not water that goes through the coolant when it’s fueled but what I find weird is that they use salt water for this system. I wonder how well the pipes and valves hold up.
I’d live next to a reactor, they aren’t unsafe, especially with what we have learned in the last thirty years (never let Jane Fonda or Michael Douglas near the plant).
We had a plant here in the Sacramento area, actually southeast of Sac but not far at all. When it was running the Westinghouse turbine kept having issues so they hand to shut the plant down to fix the turbine. I don’t think they had any nuclear issues although they had to scram the plant when the turbine shed blades. I even took a tour through it, we got as close as the air lock to the reactor containment building, it was cool. Nevertheless, the moron voters, voted to close the plant. Fast forward to around 2000. People wondered what it would take to restart Rancho Seco but it was already 50% de-commisioned. Idiots.
“It’s not water that goes through the coolant when it’s fueled but what I find weird is that they use salt water for this system. I wonder how well the pipes and valves hold up.”
perhaps this has led up to the massive corrosion.