We can yap about technology but it's all out of our hands. Nuclear fission has taken permanent hit because of its cost$. It's not safety that halted uranium, but money. In a darwinian fashion, natural gas has superseded uranium, from a cost-price ratio. Could fission or solar re-take the hill top any time soon? Will fusion ever be there? Don't know, and since I have no power to influence, don't care.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Mar 21, 2015 11:22 am Subject: Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:55 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > Reactors are either water cooled or air cooled. Graphite is used as a > moderator to slow the neutrons and increase fission I know that. > not as a coolant. Slowing the neutrons is also called cooling them. > Heavy water is used as a combined coolant and moderator in some reactors. And so is Helium and liquid sodium. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
