Greetings,
everyone,
After
our discussion some time ago on Chernobyl, we were left with some uncertainty
over just what happened. This information is from a reliable source, one of the
Russian engineering team that went into Chernobyl to assess the accident and
its causes. They used robots, of course.
The
reactor is a graphite, and had no containment vessel. There were about 200 tons
of enriched uranium (235) in Unit Four, the one that had the accident. The crew
was experimenting with the possibility of increasing the heat yield (and thus
the amount of steam that could run the electricity-generating turbines) and
lost control of the reactor. Steam built up rapidly within the core, and blew
the top of the reactor off. Then there was a second explosion, equal they think
to an ‘inefficient’ atomic bomb in power. This dispersed into
the atmosphere, to a height of 70,000 feet, approximately 190 tons of the
enriched uranium. Thus now in the reactor only about 10 tons of the material is
left. It was covered hastily in a concrete ‘sarcophagus.’ The Ukraine
is asking for more international money to redo the sarcophagus, as it is
deteriorating. The official story is that the great majority of the
uranium is still in the sarcophagus, but photographs show that this is not
correct.
This
person did not look at the health impacts of the explosion.
The
remaining three units remain in operation today. This is the same model that
the Russians have sold to the Iranians, in a deal made in ‘91 or ‘92.
The Iranians are having to pay more and more, and they still don’t have
their reactor.
Cheers,
Lawry
<![CDATA[</div>
</td></tr></table><pre>_______________________________________________
Futurework mailing list
Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework">http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework</a>
</pre>
</div>
<div class="msgButtons margintopdouble">
<ul class="overflow">
<li class="msgButtonItems"><a class="button buttonleft " accesskey="p" href="msg03176.html">Previous message</a></li>
<li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="c" href="index.html#03177">View by thread</a></li>
<li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="i" href="maillist.html#03177">View by date</a></li>
<li class="msgButtonItems textalignright"><a class="button buttonright " accesskey="n" href="msg03179.html">Next message</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<a name="tslice"></a>
<div class="tSliceList margintopdouble">
<ul class="icons monospace">
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03176.html">[Futurework] Immigration: supply and demand the real...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Karen Watters Cole</span></li>
<li><ul>
<li class="icons-email tSliceCur"><span class="subject">[Futurework] Back to Chernobyl</span> <span class="sender italic">Lawrence de Bivort</span></li>
<li><ul>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03179.html">Re: [Futurework] Back to Chernobyl</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Darryl & Natalia</span></li>
<li><ul>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03180.html">Re: [Futurework] Back to Chernobyl</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Lawrence de Bivort</span></li>
<li><ul>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03181.html">Re: [Futurework] Back to Chernobyl</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Brad McCormick</span></li>
<li><ul>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03183.html">Re: [Futurework] Back to Chern...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Lawrence de Bivort</span></li>
<li><ul>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03184.html">Re: [Futurework] Back to C...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Brad McCormick, Ed.D.</span></li>
<li><ul>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03188.html">Re: [Futurework] Back ...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Lawrence de Bivort</span></li>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03190.html">Re: [Futurework] Back ...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Lawrence de Bivort</span></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03185.html">Re: [Futurework] Back to Chernobyl</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Brad McCormick, Ed.D.</span></li>
<li><ul>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03187.html">Re: [Futurework] Back to Chernobyl</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Lawrence de Bivort</span></li>
<li><ul>
<li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg03193.html">Re: [Futurework] Back to Chern...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Harry Pollard</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="overflow msgActions margintopdouble">
<div class="msgReply" >
<h2>
Reply via email to
</h2>
<form method="POST" action="/mailto.php">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="[Futurework] Back to Chernobyl">
<input type="hidden" name="msgid" value="20060602163231.GHZO1889.imta06a2.registeredsite.com@D65NT251">
<input type="hidden" name="relpath" value="futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca/msg03177.html">
<input type="submit" value=" Lawrence de Bivort ">
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="aside" role="complementary">
<div class="logo">
<a href="/"><img src="/logo.png" width=247 height=88 alt="The Mail Archive"></a>
</div>
<form class="overflow" action="/search" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="l" value="futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca">
<label class="hidden" for="q">Search the site</label>
<input class="submittext" type="text" id="q" name="q" placeholder="Search futurework">
<input class="submitbutton" name="submit" type="image" src="/submit.png" alt="Submit">
</form>
<div class="nav margintop" id="nav" role="navigation">
<ul class="icons font16">
<li class="icons-home"><a href="/">The Mail Archive home</a></li>
<li class="icons-list"><a href="/futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca/">futurework - all messages</a></li>
<li class="icons-about"><a href="/futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca/info.html">futurework - about the list</a></li>
<li class="icons-expand"><a href="/search?l=futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca&q=subject:%22%5C%5BFuturework%5C%5D+Back+to+Chernobyl%22&o=newest&f=1" title="e" id="e">Expand</a></li>
<li class="icons-prev"><a href="msg03176.html" title="p">Previous message</a></li>
<li class="icons-next"><a href="msg03179.html" title="n">Next message</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="listlogo margintopdouble">
</div>
<div class="margintopdouble">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer" role="contentinfo">
<ul>
<li><a href="/">The Mail Archive home</a></li>
<li><a href="/faq.html#newlist">Add your mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href="/faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="/faq.html#support">Support</a></li>
<li><a href="/faq.html#privacy">Privacy</a></li>
<li class="darkgray">20060602163231.GHZO1889.imta06a2.registeredsite.com@D65NT251</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
]]>