But what courses would I have to take to tell me never to build a nuclear plant on a fault line or in a tsunami zone?
The lesson of New Madrid is that everywhere is earthquake country.
Posted on 09/01/2013 7:10:12 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
At the time of last week’s discovered leak the plant operator said the radioactivity of the puddles was around 100 millisieverts per hour.
Jiji news agency said the highest reading of 1,800 millisieverts per hour was found at one of the tanks, adding that exposure to that level for four hours would be fatal to humans. The other readings measured between 70 and 230 millisieverts, the agency added.
A TEPCO official said the operator could not rule out the possibility of new leaks of radioactive water at the four sites, the agency reported, adding that the operator had not noticed a decline in water levels inside the tanks.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantoday.com ...
Seriously, thanks for sharing. I never realized gamma waves were so short!
Regarding EMP from a nuclear detonation, which theoretically knocks out power grids, and everything else:
Why couldn't they create a controlled EMP inside a containment vessel, a sort of shielded rotating cylinder, which has slots or windows in it that alternately "flashes" the radiation at a transducer/antenna?
Couldn't that produce a fairly controllable current in a coil of wire?
Stumbled on a show online (Bob Tusken) where he was interviewing a man with a background in nuclear power plants.
He said the frightening thing was that the Japanese are continuing to flood the area of the rods with water and that’s making a soup out of the earth underneath the reactor, making it incredibly unstable.
He said robotics would be only way to withdraw the rods and said the Japanese are desperate for international help.
Personally, I think all the “elites” have their bunkers and food supplies to run to—the rest of us are on our own.
Hasn’t Benghazi Barry built a new bunker underneath the White House? Why?
“...see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass...”
Thanks for posting this...Gotta keep repeating this to myself and my better half.
Got chills listening to the guest on aforementioned show when he said the algae would turn red eventually.
YIKES!
Much of the energy released with nuclear fission manifests itself as kinetic energy. As the particles are slowed by bouncing off of other particles in the reactor, the KE is converted into heat. Steam turbines are a relatively efficient way of converting the heat energy (lower thermodynamic value) into electricity (high thermodynamic value).
I recommend some Thermodynamics courses, including some graduate level Statistical Thermodynamics, to understand this better. Maxwell is not going to help you here.
I'm sure the nuk-sperts have all this stuff down pat.
But what courses would I have to take to tell me never to build a nuclear plant on a fault line or in a tsunami zone?
Without getting TOO technical, what would happen Errant?
Chernobyl x1000, maybe more...
Just found this site—don’t know if there’s any good technical info here, but kind of a diary:
http://fukushima-diary.com/category/dnews/
Thanks for the reply.
But what courses would I have to take to tell me never to build a nuclear plant on a fault line or in a tsunami zone?
The lesson of New Madrid is that everywhere is earthquake country.
Geology 101
We have had little earthquakes here in Maine, and we used to have operational Maine Yankee sitting on a river, on a fault line. The watermelons managed to take it out.
The storage facility is still there and still being utilized, as far as I know.
Guess the nuk-spurts didn't have that as a prerequisite course, huh.
You guys have a Fukushima ping list? If yes, may I request to be on it? :)
Supposedly, the radiation is corrupting electronics.
yes
Live youtube of the Nuke Plant (I don’t have the plug-in to watch it other than through youtube). It appears not to be working today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL6lWBZBaZE
I have no idea of the reliability of these networks, along with the Govt. reporting.
http://www.netc.com/
http://radiationnetwork.com/
http://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-data/
There’s a good explanation of that upthread.
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