On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:10:07 -0500 (EST) [email protected] wrote: > > > Preventing Armageddon Would Cost Only $100 Million > But Congress Is Too Thick to Approve the Fix > > http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/preventing-armageddon-would-cost-only-100-million-but-congress-is-too-thick-to-approve-the-fix.html > >
>From the article: Unfortunately, the world’s nuclear power plants, as they are currently designed, are critically dependent upon maintaining connection to a functioning electrical grid, for all but relatively short periods of electrical blackouts, in order to keep their reactor cores continuously cooled so as to avoid catastrophic reactor core meltdowns.... I thought that reactors were designed so that inserting rods of some material would kill the reaction. I imagine they would have battery power for long enough to insert the rods; heck, maybe they even have a manual way to crank the motor to do it.
