8.9 Earthquake hits Japan

[Particle Man]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...ex.html?hpt=T1

Whoa...

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Full Throttle

No actually Nuke plans were a go in the Southeast. Im pretty sure they have been planning several more Nuke Plants to go up and be controlled by TVA.

Just read this.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20...-less-coal-use

"Tennessee Valley Authority... recommends greater use of nuclear power, natural gas and renewable resources and less reliance on coal in the next two decades."

"The board has approved funding for initial engineering design and site preparation for a Unit 1 reactor at the Bellefonte plant."

Originally Posted by Trip

Yeah, I will be getting trained on this soon, I can see.

We were actually just getting off the ground for building more. We just rebuilt Browns Ferry Unit 1. My plant, Watts Bar, is bringing online a Unit 2 for the first time currently and Bellefonte is right behind it.



You don't need to read it. I am an engineer at Watts Bar Unit 1 and can fill you in on anything you want to know about it.

Adding reactors to an existing plant is one thing. Creating a new plant will, in my opinion, be much more difficult. The NIMBY reaction seems to be significantly diminished when there are already operating reactors in someone's back yard. To this specific case I hadn't even heard about this new reactor. If a new plant were being built though, my guess is between the environmental impact, disaster modeling, and endless lawsuits trying to prevent it there would be national news coverage on and off for ten years or more.

[goof2]

Oh and about the reactor issues they are having in Japan, I am a bit concerned the Japanese aren't sharing the whole story. With the way their culture is they can make the Iraqi Information Minister (remember him?) look like the paragon of honesty. There could be a massive mushroom cloud (hyperbole on my part) in the background while a spokesman is saying it is a minor fluctuation that should be contained very soon.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...ex.html?hpt=T1

Whoa...

All those 2012 predictions are looking less and less silly eh....?

[tallywacker]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

All those 2012 predictions are looking less and less silly eh....?

Only if you're a moron

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by tallywacker

Only if you're a moron

[Trip]

Originally Posted by goof2

Adding reactors to an existing plant is one thing. Creating a new plant will, in my opinion, be much more difficult. The NIMBY reaction seems to be significantly diminished when there are already operating reactors in someone's back yard. To this specific case I hadn't even heard about this new reactor. If a new plant were being built though, my guess is between the environmental impact, disaster modeling, and endless lawsuits trying to prevent it there would be national news coverage on and off for ten years or more.

Well considering Georgia Power is currently in process of building some new design AP1000s and TVA is going to be building two AP1000s and two old design Westinghouse PWRs at a site that currently has 0 reactors, I would say the coverage is being done poorly right now.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by goof2

Oh and about the reactor issues they are having in Japan, I am a bit concerned the Japanese aren't sharing the whole story. With the way their culture is they can make the Iraqi Information Minister (remember him?) look like the paragon of honesty. There could be a massive mushroom cloud (hyperbole on my part) in the background while a spokesman is saying it is a minor fluctuation that should be contained very soon.

They are sharing the whole story, just not with you. I have a very detailed description of what has been done up until this morning in my work inbox. You are public though, you scare easily. When we describe a situation you have no idea about, it can be extremely scary.

Seriously, what would the public do with knowing that pressure in the drywell is raising because wetwell is getting hotter? Theres a lot of shit you guys don't understand about which systems do what, so if they say reactor core isolation cooling pumps were lost. You guys would just to jump to the words reactor and cooling and then it's Chernobyl all over again splashed across the news.

Let's just say Japan has stopped trying to save the reactor for use. They are getting it under control by sacrificing it's ability to ever produce power again.

[tallywacker]

Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LPGzzaSsbU

[Gas Man]

WOW that is way F'in weird!!!

Are they still having quakes?