Posted on 08/02/2020 1:03:33 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5wZoswSNwc
This air cooled reactor design is dirty as hell and the fuel cartridges getting stuck or not making it into the collection pond is (as it turns out) impossible to prevent.
Yeah I figured that, but aren’t Saudi plants online already? They were almost complete a year ago.
Could give them the power they need for desalinization, especially if they consult the Israelis.
Not yet - and the one they completed is a research reactor, to become familiar with operations and train personnel. Much like a ship, there’s fitting out time after the structures are complete, but there’s a couple sticking points.
1. They refuse to let the IAEA in to inspect and monitor their reactor facilities and to abide by IAEA rules, which means:
2. Nobody will sell them nuclear fuel.
No fuel, no working reactor. The UAE signed on to the IAEA and has not only permitted them to come in but has apparently been inviting in the IAEA and every other nuclear regulatory or certificatory body they can find to inspect, monitor, help train and audit them.
The funny part about Bhopal was that it wasn’t even the culture of the workers operating the plant, it was the local manager that UCC had put in place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hUxx8ZVDgQ
The French reactors are based on the Westinghouse Pressurizer Water Reactor design.
Saudi Arabia has no nuclear plants, and Iran is not Arabian. The Iranian language is an Indo-European one which Arabic isn’t.
90% of the Expats at least in Abu Dhabi and Dubai are Indian trash, at all levels. The UAE is a de-facto Indian colony, with a few westerners, Emiratis thrown in, and a permanent slave class - Filipinos - as low-wage retail and foreign domestic workers (maids)
They have one, it doesn’t work because they have no fuel for it.
Well there have been accidents obviously. Japan being the most major.
But ask yourself what happens when something happens that causes a disruption to a nuclear plant on a major scale. It could be war. it could be a natural disaster. What happens when those cooling pumps sudden shut down and there is no way to maintain power or keep them going.
How about a meteor strike. How about if someone drops a nuclear bomb just close enough to prevent normal access to and normal operation of the plant. Lots of possibilities if one thinks about it.
11 years to get one on line and they don’t even have the NRC nagging them the whole way.
There are actually failsafe BWR designs that can fall back on passive cooling if the pumps die.
I don’t think so. Can you tell me the design and identify the reactor vendor?
It’s a a 10kW research reactor designed by the Argentinian firm Invap SE.
https://neutronbytes.com/2019/04/07/much-ado-about-saudi-research-reactor-justified-or-not/
So it’s not a nuclear plant.
It’s still a nuclear reactor or plant. Just not a *commercial* power production plant. Also, it is specifically being constructed to train personnel for their planned small and large commercial plants:
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-o-s/saudi-arabia.aspx
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