On 03/10/2019 12:41 PM, Greg Bernard wrote:
Wow, Jon! That was the best analysis of those disasters I've ever read.
Maybe you should consider a career as a science writer!
I got real interested in Chernobyl and read up a LOT about
it. I also got a most INCREDIBLE tour of our nearest
nuclear power plant about 1982. DARN, they made it real
clear, NO PICTURES!
But, the IEEE and ASME groups were given a tour specifically
for engineers, and they showed us EVERYTHING. We actually
got to walk inside the containment (for a PWR, there are
surprisingly SMALL) and poke our heads into the reactor
pressure vessel! We had to wear bootees and hair nets. We
saw the diesel generator building, the water treatment
building (I've NEVER seen so many pipes, sensors and valves
in my life. You could NOT see across the building, it was
just SOLID with plumbing). We saw the spent fuel pool, and
the turbine and alternator were still in parts on pallets.
The alternator was really impressive -- about a
foot-diameter shaft with about 18-20" diameter rotor,
totally solid one-piece steel, with the field winding driven
into a spiral slot milled into the side.
Physics Forum has several threads on the Japanese
earthquake/tsunami and the Fukushima accident, recovery,
etc. A whole LOT to read, but it was VERY interesting
stuff, and still a few posts a month about what they are
doing now.
Did you know they are STILL cleaning up the Three Mile
Island reactor?
Jon
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