RegGuheert
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I'm willing to bet this plant will end up costing over 100X the original projections.
Herm said:This is one reason I like the SMR (Small Modular Reactor) concepts that are being developed/licensed now.. the whole reactor fits inside a concrete lined well... that can be flooded with water if needed.. and for maintenance you lift it up with a crane and transport it back by truck to the factory for refueling. They range from 25MWe up to 260MWe, use a bunch of them to equal one big unwieldy monster reactor. The Hyperion uses a lead-bismuth coolant that will solidify once it cools, fairly safe for truck transport.
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SITUATION WORSENS
Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of the Fukushima station, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, said that an observation well between the damaged reactor No. 2 and the sea showed levels of radioactive caesium-134 were 90 times higher on Monday than they had been the previous Friday.
Tokyo Electric, also known as Tepco, said it detected caesium-134 at 9,000 becquerels per litre, 150 times above Japan's safety standard. A becquerel is a measure of the release of radioactive energy.
The reading for caesium-137, with a half life of 30 years, was some 85 times higher than it had been three days earlier.
The latest findings, 25 metres (yards) from the sea, come a month after Tepco detected radioactive caesium in groundwater flowing into its wrecked plant far from the sea on elevated ground. The level of caesium found in June was much lower than the amount announced on Tuesday.
The spike, combined with recent discoveries of high levels of radioactive elements like tritium and strontium, suggest that contaminated water is spreading toward the sea side of the plant from the reactors sitting on higher ground.
"We don't know what is the reason behind the spike," Tepco spokeswoman Mayumi Yoshida told Reuters. "We're still looking to determine the causes behind it."
The operator has been flushing water over the three reactors to keep them cool for more than two years, but contaminated water has been building up at the rate of an an Olympic-size swimming pool per week.
thankyouOB said:nuclear power; the gift that keeps on killing.
1) Is that even actually true?thankyouOB said:why no company will build a nuclear power plant without federal limits on liability
Modify or repeal cold-war-era treaties that prevent us from reprocessing nuclear waste, which would both increase available nuclear fuel supply while substantially reducing the amount of waste to be dealt with. Vitrify what's left and bury it.thankyouOB said:what we are going to do with the waste
Again, is this actually true?thankyouOB said:why no insurance company will insure them without federal limits on liability
We're going to store in in your garage. Your garage. Think of the money you'll save on your heating bills!thankyouOB said:what we will do with the waste
how cooling pools at plants are a solution to waste storage
what we will do with the waste
WetEV said:thankyouOB said:nuclear power; the gift that keeps on killing.
Keep spreading that FUD. Coal Miners are counting on you.
thankyouOB said:please note. i had a close friend who died in her 30s of a very rare cancer after visiting ukraine and environs to do research just a couple of years after the chernobyl event.
her doctors said she likely picked up an isotope during her visit.
thankyouOB said:WetEV said:thankyouOB said:nuclear power; the gift that keeps on killing.
Keep spreading that FUD. Coal Miners are counting on you.
i have solar for all my power. how about you?
Koriyama: As with all official measuring posts checked by me (37 of 1,341) this one also shows a value almost 50% too low compared to my calibrated Geiger counter.
Fukushima City: Slowly Yoshihiko Oyama gets used to wearing this dosimeter around his neck - like all other students. This device will accumulate the radiation levels to which he is exposed every day for the next year.
At the edge of a busy road toward a Junior High School in the city of Koriyama I measure 14.88 microsieverts per hour - before the Fukushima accident, there were 0.04 microsieverts per hour. On such a highly contaminated site in Germany, you would be wearing a radiation protection suit and repirators, here the unsuspecting kids are walking by in shorts and T-shirts.
AndyH said:At the edge of a busy road toward a Junior High School in the city of Koriyama I measure 14.88 microsieverts per hour - before the Fukushima accident, there were 0.04 microsieverts per hour. On such a highly contaminated site in Germany, you would be wearing a radiation protection suit and repirators, here the unsuspecting kids are walking by in shorts and T-shirts.
WetEV said:AndyH said:At the edge of a busy road toward a Junior High School in the city of Koriyama I measure 14.88 microsieverts per hour - before the Fukushima accident, there were 0.04 microsieverts per hour. On such a highly contaminated site in Germany, you would be wearing a radiation protection suit and repirators, here the unsuspecting kids are walking by in shorts and T-shirts.
If the contamination was nuclear industry caused, perhaps. If it was coal ash, it would be just "so what"? If it was natural, you might say "what a wonderful view from this pile of rocks" while wearing lederhosen.
WetEV said:Sure, because of massive increase in fossil fuel burning. That is so much better, isn't it?
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