On Sunday 10 March 2019 16:04:28 Jon Elson wrote: > 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 > No I didn't, I had assumed that was long buried in the salt mine by now. Is there a site where we can see it now?
OTOH, I expect they will still be working on Fukushima with robots 50 years from now. And how long will the new containment facility at Chernobyl last before they have to build another even bigger one. Better question perhaps is how noisy is the groundwater in a 30 mile radius around it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
