Ecki, It's not the learning from the thing, but the doing that's at fault. Nobody has found good alternatives... Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:06 AM, eckinator <[email protected]> wrote: > INES level is up to 6 from 4 now according to French ASN. Chernobyl > was 7. The situation is different in that Fukushima 1 (Daiichi) is not > graphite moderated so there can be no graphite fire but a steam > explosion isn't so bad either. All 6 blocks in varying degrees trouble > now, at least 200 tons of "spent"fuel rods in cooling basins outside > the containments, a broken containment in block 2, radiation levels > too high in the control room etc... One expert named Mycle Schneider > was quoted saying all being done now was "palliative". Oh, and two > block cooling failures in Fukushima 2 (Daini) yet to evolve. Tokai and > Onagawa look safe so far. Speaking of safe, French Sarkozy just > announced there will be no stop to French nuclear plans as French > reactors are (quote) ten times safer than those in Japan. Same from a > number of other countries or to a similar vein. Fukushima Daiichi was > built using a 60s GE design and hasn't been upgraded much since. So > much for lessons learned from Chernobyl. Not even the Wallmann valves > were redundant apparently. And Tepco was involved in a number of cover > up scandals including forged maintenance docs. > > It scares the living daylights out of me to think that noone seems to > learn a thing from this. No matter how safe you make a nuke plant, you > can never reach 100% and any failure of this order of magnitude will > have similar effects. And it will happen again. Probably still in my > lifetime. > > 2011/3/15 Boris Liberman <[email protected]>: >> On 3/15/2011 1:28 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> A friend of mine who is a Nuclear Physicist, and lives in Los Alamos, >>> read and vetted the original post in this series, which has been >>> moved to the MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering website: >>> >>> http://mitnse.com/ >> >> Thanks, Larry. Bookmarked. >> >> Boris >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
