I've changed my mind about nuclear power. 0_o

Holden Caulfield said:
Don't be so concrete; the earthquake caused the tsunami, the tsunami cracked the containment vessal= the earthquake wrecked the plant.
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A phenomenal natural disaster happened, and it was the combination of an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which caused a problem at the nuclear power facility. The facility was only built to withstand a category 4 or 5 earthquake, this was much more powerful. The loss of the cooling system due to the tsunami, is ultimately what caused a problem, in the beginning, there were no high levels of radioactivity reported at or around the plant. This means the containment vessel withstood the earthquake itself. That is not, and can not be, why the containment vessel cracked. You see, nuclear rods are extremely hot by nature... this is what produces the energy... if they are not kept cooled down, they will get so hot, they melt through the containment vessel itself. Heat creates conditions in solid matter, for fissions to form...thus a crack is born. It's fairly elementary science.
 
Dune is expressing his usual retardation. If the diesel generators at the plant had been situated above wave height, then they wouldn't have been flooded and no failure would have occurred. The reactors survived the earthquake.
 
Damn Yankee said:
Dune is expressing his usual retardation. If the diesel generators at the plant had been situated above wave height, then they wouldn't have been flooded and no failure would have occurred. The reactors survived the earthquake.
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Jane you ignorant slut, the plant is in meltdown. It happened because of the earthquake. It doesn't matter which link in the chain broke, what matters is that it broke.
 
Holden Caulfield said:
Jane you ignorant slut, the plant is in meltdown. It happened because of the earthquake. It doesn't matter which link in the chain broke, what matters is that it broke.
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I don't often agree with DY but he is absolutely right here. The nuclear plant had a wall around it that was nearly 20 ft high to protect from tsunamis, they didn't expect one that was nearly twice as high. Hardly surprising since there hadn't been an earthquake of that intensity since 869 AD in that area of Japan. The containment vessels were not damaged either by the earthquake or the tsunami and the reactors wouldn't have overheated if the backup generators were higher off the ground.

Third generation reactors do not need backup generators as they use a passive cooling technique and have auto shut-off capability.
 
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