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Harryk

On 3/16/11 12:26 AM, I_am_Tosk wrote:
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:10:12 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:42:48 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:11:19 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:37:00 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:19:14 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:35:01 -0400, wrote:

I haven't been opposed to nuclear power. I live about 20 miles from one.
But this latest incident in Japan sure gives one pause.

I think the significant thing is that the problem wasn't the 9.0
earthquake, it was the tsunami. That makes most of the US reactors
somewhat immune to the biggest problem.

It does highlight how vulnerable the cooling systems are to unexpected
second order effects. The Japanese had diesel generators for backup
power and then the diesels got knocked out by the tsunami. There are
a lot of other things that can knock out diesel generators however.
The track record of standby diesels performing reliably in an
emergency is spotty at best. It takes an extremely rigorous
maintenance and testing regime starting with fuel storage, filtration
practices, etc.

Why not just put a big water tank on top of the building... then all
you need is gravity.

The size of the tank.

How big would it have to be? Seems like you could build a pretty big
one that would work for at least some period of time... long enough to
get the backup online.

They have been pumping sea water into those reactors for days using
big barge mounted pumps and it is still hot. You are talking about a
good sized lake, not a tank.

Seems to me that if the water was released in a controlled fashion at
the beginning of the problem, there wouldn't be a requirement for that
vast an amount of water.

It "seems to you"?? Holy crap, watch a newscast before you make such a
stupid statement. You don't care about Florida, you don't care to even
inform yourself at all about the situation in Nippon, you just blather
on about Righties this and Conservatives that, and wait for someone to
follow you down your yellow brick road.. Greg is catching on, and from
what we have learned about you lately, I am sure once he stops playing
you will move along, change your handle and infect some other group...
Pffft... Dork..

There's an idea, snotty...change your handle (again) and infect some
other group.