Interesting stuff, Jon. Didn't know about the ongoing cleanup at Three Mile but it doesn't surprise me. Now I'm going to put you on the spot. Given our current need for carbon-free energy, do you see nuclear as a viable option?
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 3:06 PM Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." -Kenneth Boulding, economist Corporations are NOT people and money is NOT speech! _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
