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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:05:57 PM EDT
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SOMA, Japan – The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 6 workers.
The plant's operator said radiation levels at the reactor were still within legal limits. The explosion at the plant's Unit 3, which authorities have been frantically trying to cool following a system failure in the wake of a massive earthquake and tsunami, triggered an order for hundreds of people to stay indoors, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_crisis |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:10:13 PM EDT
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If we hadn't nuked them in WWII, they would have eventually done it themselves. Now we know.
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:17:59 PM EDT
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If we hadn't nuked them in WWII, they would have eventually done it themselves. Now we know. The plant consists of six boiling water reactors designed by General Electric according to wikipedia. So I guess we are nuking them again. Am I the only one that thinks it is stupid to design a nuclear reactor that requires power to cool the radioactive fuel in order to keep it from melting down? |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:29:43 PM EDT
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If we hadn't nuked them in WWII, they would have eventually done it themselves. Now we know. The plant consists of six boiling water reactors designed by General Electric according to wikipedia. So I guess we are nuking them again. Am I the only one that thinks it is stupid to design a nuclear reactor that requires power to cool the radioactive fuel in order to keep it from melting down? If you can come up with a better design, the world would love you for it. ETA: as far as I know, even the fourth gen plants are going to require powered decay heat removal. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:34:30 PM EDT
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We were talking about this more than an hour ago in the quake thread. The top popped like reactor no1
latest news is There has been an explosion at a fuel oil tank at a thermal power plant in Fukushima prefecture, Jiji is reporting. Reuters |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:37:33 PM EDT
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Fuck. That sucks, it could be worse... # 2 and #4 haven't popped.
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:38:42 PM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it?
I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:39:03 PM EDT
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I hope everything turns out alright.
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:41:28 PM EDT
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Quoted: Fuck. That sucks, it could be worse... # 2 and #4 haven't popped. YET. The reactors didn't explode, only the released hydrogen. And the buildings are designed to do what they did. The buildings only protect the cranes from corrosion. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:45:57 PM EDT
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Fuck. That sucks, it could be worse... # 2 and #4 haven't popped. YET. The reactors didn't explode, only the released hydrogen. And the buildings are designed to do what they did. The buildings only protect the cranes from corrosion. The question is how did the hydrogen get out of the pressure vessel and sarcophougus? It is my understanding that the concrete shell is seperated from them, so did they intentionally vent the hydrogen into the shell, was there a puncture or leak in the sarcophougus, or did the hydrogen just leech out through the steel by virtue of its small atomic size? |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:49:12 PM EDT
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If we hadn't nuked them in WWII, they would have eventually done it themselves. Now we know. pure class |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:51:29 PM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:51:58 PM EDT
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Quoted: If we hadn't nuked them in WWII, they would have eventually done it themselves. Now we know. ...profound wisdom is profound. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:51:59 PM EDT
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I posted this in the other thread
News This Is The Scariest First-Person Video Of The Japan Tsunami Yet |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:52:16 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: If we hadn't nuked them in WWII, they would have eventually done it themselves. Now we know. The plant consists of six boiling water reactors designed by General Electric according to wikipedia. So I guess we are nuking them again. Am I the only one that thinks it is stupid to design a nuclear reactor that requires power to cool the radioactive fuel in order to keep it from melting down? Two of the reactors are Toshiba, one is Hitachi, and three are GE at the #1 plant. So yes, they are nuking themselves. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:53:20 PM EDT
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Fuck. That sucks, it could be worse... # 2 and #4 haven't popped. YET. The reactors didn't explode, only the released hydrogen. And the buildings are designed to do what they did. The buildings only protect the cranes from corrosion. sir, with all due respect...the thing exploded and i dont think that this is a good sign. i mean , A NUCLEAR REACTOR EXPLODED ––NO EVERYTHING IS NOT OK! |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:53:20 PM EDT
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Quoted: I hope everything turns out alright. if your willing to wait a decade or so. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:54:11 PM EDT
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The Pentagon was expected to announce that the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, which is sailing in the Pacific, passed through a radioactive cloud from stricken nuclear reactors in Japan, causing crew members on deck to receive a month’s worth of radiation in about an hour, government officials said Sunday.
Carrier Crew Exposed To Radiation Situation appears to be getting worse by the day. 
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Posted: 3/13/2011 10:58:24 PM EDT
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Even if they meltdown the it should still contain itself if we designed them I mean three mile island held with a partial meltdown, chernobyl was all about dumb ideas, and shotty workmanship. But in any event they are dumping sea water into reactor 3 to cool it which will corrode everything up and make it useless to ever run again, but at least it won't meltdown, sometimes you just have to what you have to do to protect the people.
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:00:10 PM EDT
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Fuck. That sucks, it could be worse... # 2 and #4 haven't popped. YET. The reactors didn't explode, only the released hydrogen. And the buildings are designed to do what they did. The buildings only protect the cranes from corrosion. sir, with all due respect...the thing exploded and i dont think that this is a good sign. i mean , A NUCLEAR REACTOR EXPLODED ––NO EVERYTHING IS NOT OK! NO A NUCLEAR REACTOR DID NOT EXPLODE |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:02:35 PM EDT
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Fuck. That sucks, it could be worse... # 2 and #4 haven't popped. YET. The reactors didn't explode, only the released hydrogen. And the buildings are designed to do what they did. The buildings only protect the cranes from corrosion. sir, with all due respect...the thing exploded and i dont think that this is a good sign. i mean , A NUCLEAR REACTOR EXPLODED ––NO EVERYTHING IS NOT OK! No, the building above a nuclear reactor exploded. Kind of like the difference between lighting a firecracker on your hand vs in your fist. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:04:20 PM EDT
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The Pentagon was expected to announce that the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, which is sailing in the Pacific, passed through a radioactive cloud from stricken nuclear reactors in Japan, causing crew members on deck to receive a month’s worth of radiation in about an hour, government officials said Sunday.
Carrier Crew Exposed To Radiation Situation appears to be getting worse by the day. http://smilies.blazemint.com/s/contrib/aahmed/sad.gif wow, a month's radiation? When I was in we had yearly dose limits, not monthly. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:04:37 PM EDT
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Quoted: sir, with all due respect...the thing exploded and i dont think that this is a good sign. i mean , A NUCLEAR REACTOR EXPLODED ––NO EVERYTHING IS NOT OK! I never cease to be amazed. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:04:57 PM EDT
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Get ready for no2 to go
TEPCO says it's considering releasing hydrogen from Fukushima Daiichi No. 2 reactor building. reuters |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:08:42 PM EDT
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Get ready for no2 to go TEPCO says it's considering releasing hydrogen from Fukushima Daiichi No. 2 reactor building. reuters It just gets worse... 
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:13:23 PM EDT
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Why aren't they designed with backup steam turbine coolant pumps fed from the reactor? Why are electric powered pumps in all levels of safety systems? Sort of harvesting the excess heat to cool itself. Pump dynamics may be the limiting factor.
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:13:38 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Fuck. That sucks, it could be worse... # 2 and #4 haven't popped. YET. The reactors didn't explode, only the released hydrogen. And the buildings are designed to do what they did. The buildings only protect the cranes from corrosion. The question is how did the hydrogen get out of the pressure vessel and sarcophougus? It is my understanding that the concrete shell is seperated from them, so did they intentionally vent the hydrogen into the shell, was there a puncture or leak in the sarcophougus, or did the hydrogen just leech out through the steel by virtue of its small atomic size? First, there is NO SARCOPHAGUS. Look up what that word means. These boiling water reactors have a pressure vessel which will withstand over 3500 PSI at 700 degrees F. And that vessel is ideally filled with water vapor and boiling water, in addition to the rest of the contents. Because of the lack of circulation, heat pockets caused hydrogen to build up, this interferes with heat transfer and causes pressure excursions. So the hydrogen must be vented. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:16:03 PM EDT
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Why aren't they designed with backup steam turbine coolant pumps fed from the reactor? Why are electric powered pumps in all levels of safety systems? Sort of harvesting the excess heat to cool itself. Pump dynamics may be the limiting factor. They have backup steam turbines... They use them to inject water into the core containment, which is what has kept the situation as controlled as it has been. To be in this situation, dozens of very robust systems failed to get us here... Mostly because a fucking insane earthquake and tsunami kicked the shit out of the plant. TR85. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:16:28 PM EDT
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Get ready for no2 to go TEPCO says it's considering releasing hydrogen from Fukushima Daiichi No. 2 reactor building. reuters It just gets worse... TEPCO has completed releasing hydrogen from the Fukushima Daiichi No. 2 reactor building. Earlier we said they were considering releasing it, but they had already released it. Reuters |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:17:06 PM EDT
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Fuck. That sucks, it could be worse... # 2 and #4 haven't popped. YET. The reactors didn't explode, only the released hydrogen. And the buildings are designed to do what they did. The buildings only protect the cranes from corrosion. The question is how did the hydrogen get out of the pressure vessel and sarcophougus? It is my understanding that the concrete shell is seperated from them, so did they intentionally vent the hydrogen into the shell, was there a puncture or leak in the sarcophougus, or did the hydrogen just leech out through the steel by virtue of its small atomic size? There is no sarcophagus. There is a containment building. Chernobyl has a sarcophagus because it was built after the reactor exploded. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:19:51 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Fuck. That sucks, it could be worse... # 2 and #4 haven't popped. YET. The reactors didn't explode, only the released hydrogen. And the buildings are designed to do what they did. The buildings only protect the cranes from corrosion. The question is how did the hydrogen get out of the pressure vessel and sarcophougus? It is my understanding that the concrete shell is seperated from them, so did they intentionally vent the hydrogen into the shell, was there a puncture or leak in the sarcophougus, or did the hydrogen just leech out through the steel by virtue of its small atomic size? There is no sarcophagus. There is a containment building. Chernobyl has a sarcophagus because it was built after the reactor exploded. And that is a bad name there too. Sarco is flesh. Phagus is eater. Bodies are placed into sarcophagi to consume the flesh. A tomb is a better description. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:19:53 PM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation? 
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:28:51 PM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation?
Yeah, definitely the same thing... There were a few hundred men that gave there lives in chernobyl. They were all told they were going to die before they went outside. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:31:24 PM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation?
Yeah, definitely the same thing... There were a few hundred men that gave there lives in chernobyl. They were all told they were going to die before they went outside. Damn... 
I wasn't trying to talk shit about them, I'm just saying I don't see good things in their future...
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:39:32 PM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation?
Yeah, definitely the same thing... I honestly do enjoy your posts as whole except for this one. Every time a deputy straps on the vest and gets in the patrol car hes in danger. Hell they can't even enjoy a night out on the town with out having contengency plans and watching their back at every turn. I will also say every toneout as a firefighter comes with a chance of danger. The scariest time was a truck that was hauling ass and I was signaling traffic to stop, the trucker was doing about 60 on solid ice and geared down and jaked and he get stopped <10 feet from me as I was making a move to jump the guardrail. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:42:57 PM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation?
Yeah, definitely the same thing... I honestly do enjoy your posts as whole except for this one. Every time a deputy straps on the vest and gets in the patrol car hes in danger. Hell they can't even enjoy a night out on the town with out having contengency plans and watching their back at every turn. I will also say every toneout as a firefighter comes with a chance of danger. The scariest time was a truck that was hauling ass and I was signaling traffic to stop, the trucker was doing about 60 on solid ice and geared down and jaked and he get stopped <10 feet from me as I was making a move to jump the guardrail. Please read my above post. My dad was a cop, I have respect for them, know what they go through, and so on. This is not a 'chance' of something bad happening, it's going to fucking happen. At what point do they abandon the plant? |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:49:59 PM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation?
Yeah, definitely the same thing... I honestly do enjoy your posts as whole except for this one. Every time a deputy straps on the vest and gets in the patrol car hes in danger. Hell they can't even enjoy a night out on the town with out having contengency plans and watching their back at every turn. I will also say every toneout as a firefighter comes with a chance of danger. The scariest time was a truck that was hauling ass and I was signaling traffic to stop, the trucker was doing about 60 on solid ice and geared down and jaked and he get stopped <10 feet from me as I was making a move to jump the guardrail. Please read my above post. My dad was a cop, I have respect for them, know what they go through, and so on. This is not a 'chance' of something bad happening, it's going to fucking happen. At what point do they abandon the plant? I don't think there is an easy answer to that question. There is not an option to let this fail. It will be shut down and cleaned up. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:54:09 PM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation?
Yeah, definitely the same thing... I honestly do enjoy your posts as whole except for this one. Every time a deputy straps on the vest and gets in the patrol car hes in danger. Hell they can't even enjoy a night out on the town with out having contengency plans and watching their back at every turn. I will also say every toneout as a firefighter comes with a chance of danger. The scariest time was a truck that was hauling ass and I was signaling traffic to stop, the trucker was doing about 60 on solid ice and geared down and jaked and he get stopped <10 feet from me as I was making a move to jump the guardrail. Please read my above post. My dad was a cop, I have respect for them, know what they go through, and so on. This is not a 'chance' of something bad happening, it's going to fucking happen. At what point do they abandon the plant? I did, and I understand I just don't much care for much smack talk about EMS/LEO's seeing first hand what they live for and what their jobs are about. I would say these guys have a job, and most likely they are going to see it through until the end. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 11:54:56 PM EDT
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This isn't ANYTHING like Chernobyl. NOTHING like it.
RBMK reactors had no real pressure vessel for the reactor, just upper and lower biological shields surrounded by water tank. The reactors in peril are boiling water reactors. The "core" is surrounded by the boiling water in normal operation, the reactor vessel MUST be water vapor tight to a pressure of 3200 PSI or more. And the reactor pressure vessels have not ruptured, the explosions are from intentionally vented hydrogen gas Chernobyl was a tricky plant to operate and once it lost control, it went into over-temperature rapidly, making carbon vapor which then exploded once it leaked. No containment, no pressure vessel as the working fluid was contained in tubes which traversed the core. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 12:00:13 AM EDT
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The reactors in peril are boiling water reactors. The "core" is surrounded by the boiling water in normal operation, the reactor vessel MUST be water vapor tight to a pressure of 3200 PSI or more. And the reactor pressure vessels have not ruptured, the explosions are from intentionally vented hydrogen gas . That's good to hear 
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Posted: 3/14/2011 12:03:14 AM EDT
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* Low-level radiation has been detected outside the plant but at very low levels. These levels would need to rise something like a thousand times before real fears are justified, experts say.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/uk-japan-quake-explosion-idUKTRE72D1TE20110314 |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 12:12:36 AM EDT
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This isn't ANYTHING like Chernobyl. NOTHING like it. RBMK reactors had no real pressure vessel for the reactor, just upper and lower biological shields surrounded by water tank. The reactors in peril are boiling water reactors. The "core" is surrounded by the boiling water in normal operation, the reactor vessel MUST be water vapor tight to a pressure of 3200 PSI or more. And the reactor pressure vessels have not ruptured, the explosions are from intentionally vented hydrogen gas Chernobyl was a tricky plant to operate and once it lost control, it went into over-temperature rapidly, making carbon vapor which then exploded once it leaked. No containment, no pressure vessel as the working fluid was contained in tubes which traversed the core. any idea how long it will take to cool the rods off? |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 12:13:38 AM EDT
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The reactors in peril are boiling water reactors. The "core" is surrounded by the boiling water in normal operation, the reactor vessel MUST be water vapor tight to a pressure of 3200 PSI or more. And the reactor pressure vessels have not ruptured, the explosions are from intentionally vented hydrogen gas . That's good to hear
I wish those men the best of luck for a safe and timely resolution. On top of all that, even if primary containment fails and the pressure vessel ruptures, the core is still walled in by a bajillion tons of concrete that would surround it on all sides and the bottom... Even if the core is outright exposed, it's staying put... Although that situation would really suck, as it would allow fission byproducts to escape in large quantities into the air. We're nowhere near it getting that bad though... For that to happen, you'd have to have pressure buildup without the ability to vent it. Chernobyl, by comparison, was basically a nuclear reactor built inside of a Home Depot... A good tornado hitting it would have wiped it out. TR85. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 12:47:05 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: This isn't ANYTHING like Chernobyl. NOTHING like it. RBMK reactors had no real pressure vessel for the reactor, just upper and lower biological shields surrounded by water tank. The reactors in peril are boiling water reactors. The "core" is surrounded by the boiling water in normal operation, the reactor vessel MUST be water vapor tight to a pressure of 3200 PSI or more. And the reactor pressure vessels have not ruptured, the explosions are from intentionally vented hydrogen gas Chernobyl was a tricky plant to operate and once it lost control, it went into over-temperature rapidly, making carbon vapor which then exploded once it leaked. No containment, no pressure vessel as the working fluid was contained in tubes which traversed the core. any idea how long it will take to cool the rods off? A few weeks. The fission reaction creates a good bit of daughter elements which then also contribute to the overall thermal output. Only some of these reactions aren't neutron capture so they cannot be directly controlled. They contribute less than 10% of the total thermal output but without circulation, heat will build up. That is the problem now. These thermal reactions decrease exponentially after control rods are fully inserted which happened as a programmed consequence of the earth quake. The bulk of the incident is over. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 12:50:57 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The reactors in peril are boiling water reactors. The "core" is surrounded by the boiling water in normal operation, the reactor vessel MUST be water vapor tight to a pressure of 3200 PSI or more. And the reactor pressure vessels have not ruptured, the explosions are from intentionally vented hydrogen gas . That's good to hear I wish those men the best of luck for a safe and timely resolution. On top of all that, even if primary containment fails and the pressure vessel ruptures, the core is still walled in by a bajillion tons of concrete that would surround it on all sides and the bottom... Even if the core is outright exposed, it's staying put... Although that situation would really suck, as it would allow fission byproducts to escape in large quantities into the air. We're nowhere near it getting that bad though... For that to happen, you'd have to have pressure buildup without the ability to vent it. Chernobyl, by comparison, was basically a nuclear reactor built inside of a Home Depot... A good tornado hitting it would have wiped it out. TR85. Exactly. The core was cooled by a network of boiler tubes, the pressure containment was inside these tubes with the reactor outside of the tubes. In these Japanese reactors, the core is inside a very large pressure vessel where steam is made from the cooling water that directly contacts the core. The RBMK (Chernobyl) reactor was MUCH LARGER because of this design difference. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 1:57:13 AM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation?
Yeah, definitely the same thing... There were a few hundred men that gave there lives in chernobyl. They were all told they were going to die before they went outside. i remember watching a documentary which said that they were given medication and suits and were told these would protect them. it also said thousands not hundreds. i don't know which is true but just tossing it out there. facts are not always facts as they seem. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:42:50 AM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation?
Yeah, definitely the same thing... There were a few hundred men that gave there lives in chernobyl. They were all told they were going to die before they went outside. i remember watching a documentary which said that they were given medication and suits and were told these would protect them. it also said thousands not hundreds. i don't know which is true but just tossing it out there. facts are not always facts as they seem. Soviet soldiers aren't stupid... They knew bullshit when they heard it, I am sure. Just like the guys on K-19. No matter what you're told, marching into a nuclear reactor in full-tilt meltdown to do engineering work takes a brave sonofabitch. I'm not sure I'd do that. TR85. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:44:47 AM EDT
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Who in their right mind would "go" to that plant to "save" it? I feel really sorry for these people. I don't think they quite thought it through. People who have a certain "work ethic" and feel like they have a "responsibility" to do what's "right" to "protect" their "countrymen" from "danger". By your logic, who in their right mind would ever join the fucking military? Or become a cop? Or a firefighter? Or an EMT? You're comparing being a cop to knowingly entering an area of radiation?
Yeah, definitely the same thing... There were a few hundred men that gave there lives in chernobyl. They were all told they were going to die before they went outside. i remember watching a documentary which said that they were given medication and suits and were told these would protect them. it also said thousands not hundreds. i don't know which is true but just tossing it out there. facts are not always facts as they seem. Are you talking about the documentary where they wrapped up in aluminum foil and ran out the door with a shovel? |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 3:05:01 AM EDT
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There was a documentary on History Channel called "Battle of Chernobyl". It showed footage of
the workers as they cleaned off the top of the plant. Each man had special suits that were actually lead armor and they would race up and out onto the roof and work for two or three minutes and then run back off the roof and the next "shift" would go up. They limited each man's exposure to the radioactive material. It was interesting to say the least. You can watch it on Youtube. ARKAR |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 5:09:54 AM EDT
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Nothing at all to worry about...
Navy Crewmen Contaminated By Radiation The radioactivity was detected when the service members returned to the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan aboard three helicopters. They were treated with soap and water and their clothes were discarded.
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