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| | | Re: Communist Nukes < Reply # 12 on 11/13/2014 8:30 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Jack8rkin One thing is strange -- Soviet VVER reactors are not reliable as the article states. Any accidents with these type of Soviet/Russian reactors on the record? Why then Fukushima Westinghouse designed super-reliable reactor failed? (Though it was a boiler type...) The article is super biased, I belive. Accidets just happen -- it does not depend on a nation.
| the Japanese catastrophe was part bad planning, part mismanagement and part bad luck. The Japanese should've known better than to build a reactor where they did. It was just a matter of time before the sea stepped in and gave it the big fuck you. I used to live not even three miles from Watts Bar Nuclear One when I lived in Evensville, TN. That was about 30 miles from Sequoyah Nuclear in Soddy-Daisy,TN... To be honest, it never bothered me. The thing with nuclear power is that there are better technologies here and now for nuclear power that eschew the old technologies that are, more or less, 1950's technology. Ever hear of a pebble-bed reactor? Of course not. It's meltdown proof. Used one third the fuel of a conventional reactor, uses helium gas as an agitator. Looks like a gumball machine. Helium gas stops the balls from circulating, reaction stops, end of story. The spent fuel is also easier to dispose of, even though there is more of it. The West Germans pooped around with idea in the 80's and a little bit of a mishap when a ball got stuck. Oops. The technology may have caught up with it, but the science behind it is sound. (<----this is an oversimplification, but oh well... look it up yourself for the whole history of the thing) There was a fascinating wikipedia (yeah, i know... wikipedia, right? Meh, it's a place to start the trip) article about operating nuclear power reactors in the US and ones that have been decommissioned.
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| | | Re: Communist Nukes < Reply # 13 on 11/15/2014 10:48 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Samurai
the Japanese catastrophe was part bad planning, part mismanagement and part bad luck. The Japanese should've known better than to build a reactor where they did. It was just a matter of time before the sea stepped in and gave it the big fuck you. I used to live not even three miles from Watts Bar Nuclear One when I lived in Evensville, TN. That was about 30 miles from Sequoyah Nuclear in Soddy-Daisy,TN... To be honest, it never bothered me. The thing with nuclear power is that there are better technologies here and now for nuclear power that eschew the old technologies that are, more or less, 1950's technology. Ever hear of a pebble-bed reactor? Of course not. It's meltdown proof. Used one third the fuel of a conventional reactor, uses helium gas as an agitator. Looks like a gumball machine. Helium gas stops the balls from circulating, reaction stops, end of story. The spent fuel is also easier to dispose of, even though there is more of it. The West Germans pooped around with idea in the 80's and a little bit of a mishap when a ball got stuck. Oops. The technology may have caught up with it, but the science behind it is sound. (<----this is an oversimplification, but oh well... look it up yourself for the whole history of the thing)
There was a fascinating wikipedia (yeah, i know... wikipedia, right? Meh, it's a place to start the trip) article about operating nuclear power reactors in the US and ones that have been decommissioned.
| Have any links to this stuff? I'd love to get more educated on nuclear power. I looked up pebble-bed. Fascinating stuff
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| Jack8rkin
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| | | Re: Communist Nukes < Reply # 15 on 11/21/2014 5:09 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Samurai
the Japanese catastrophe was part bad planning, part mismanagement and part bad luck. The Japanese should've known better than to build a reactor where they did. It was just a matter of time before the sea stepped in and gave it the big fuck you. I used to live not even three miles from Watts Bar Nuclear One when I lived in Evensville, TN. That was about 30 miles from Sequoyah Nuclear in Soddy-Daisy,TN... To be honest, it never bothered me. The thing with nuclear power is that there are better technologies here and now for nuclear power that eschew the old technologies that are, more or less, 1950's technology. Ever hear of a pebble-bed reactor? Of course not. It's meltdown proof. Used one third the fuel of a conventional reactor, uses helium gas as an agitator. Looks like a gumball machine. Helium gas stops the balls from circulating, reaction stops, end of story. The spent fuel is also easier to dispose of, even though there is more of it. The West Germans pooped around with idea in the 80's and a little bit of a mishap when a ball got stuck. Oops. The technology may have caught up with it, but the science behind it is sound. (<----this is an oversimplification, but oh well... look it up yourself for the whole history of the thing)
There was a fascinating wikipedia (yeah, i know... wikipedia, right? Meh, it's a place to start the trip) article about operating nuclear power reactors in the US and ones that have been decommissioned.
| Oh yes I know what PBMR is! This kind of reactors was being developed in Russia back in soviet times as well. You may have heard of the GT-MHR -- it is also gas cooled with coated fuel particles in compacts rather than spheres and a prismatic core instead of a pebble bed core. Anyway, gas-cooled reactors are still mostly paperwork.
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