<[email protected]> wrote:
> ...all of this makes me wonder if it might be safer NOT to scram the > reactor. > That way it can continue to provide power itself to power it's own > auxiliary > equipment. > It would blow up in no time. The aux equipment takes a couple of megawatts I think; the reactor produces 3000 MW thermal. Under normal circumstances, and in every previous reactor accident as far as I know, the aux generators have been intact and they worked fine. They were never the source of the problem. After the 2007 earthquake, one of the Diesel aux generators at Kashiwazaki burned up, but there was plenty of extra capacity and that would not have been a problem even in a long term emergency cut off from the grid. - Jed
