Guys, I think we are at a HUGE risk with Fission reactors in 2013 with CMEs and the two large Comets inbound (a third comet just broke up) which will fly close to the sun and could trigger large ejections and flares. A huge solar flare could fry the grid, backup batteries and knock out generators on Earth. I say take fission reactrors offline for a year and fire up the gas turbines while we see what happens with the sun. I think the comets will cool things down anyway.
Stewart darkmattersalot.com On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Vorl Bek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:10:07 -0500 (EST) > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > > Preventing Armageddon Would Cost Only $100 Million > > … But Congress Is Too Thick to Approve the Fix > > > > > http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/preventing-armageddon-would-cost-only-100-million-but-congress-is-too-thick-to-approve-the-fix.html > > > > > > From the article: > Unfortunately, the world’s nuclear power plants, as they are > currently designed, are critically dependent upon maintaining > connection to a functioning electrical grid, for all but > relatively short periods of electrical blackouts, in order to keep > their reactor cores continuously cooled so as to avoid > catastrophic reactor core meltdowns.... > > > I thought that reactors were designed so that inserting rods of > some material would kill the reaction. I imagine they would have > battery power for long enough to insert the rods; heck, maybe > they even have a manual way to crank the motor to do it. > >
