Nuclear explosion in Japan

[suityou01]

I find it a bit sad that so much attention is being given to these nuclear power station problems. The tsunami has already dwarfed anything that is going to happen with these reactors in terms of human, environmental and economic impact.

I'm impressed you stopped obsessing about your bowel movements long enough to think about this.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Supriised that nobody has mentioned MOX yet .

Its whats probably radiating out of Reactor 3 - insure NOW with Prudential.

[suityou01]

Supriised that nobody has mentioned MOX yet .

Its whats probably rasiating out of Reactor 3 - insure NOW with Prudential.

You mean it's already started to rasiate?

Worse than I though.

[TimberWolf]

It does. When it goes boom (twice now) and all the steam comes out with low half life radiation that's where the water goes.

And anything that flakes off the alleged melted fuels rods and radioactive sea water minerals. Not that I suggest this has happened, just that with melted fuel rods and sea water 'boiled dry' isn't such an innocuous thing, as that boiled water and everything dissolved or carried with it it ends up outside too.

[TimberWolf]

I find it a bit sad that so much attention is being given to these nuclear power station problems. The tsunami has already dwarfed anything that is going to happen with these reactors in terms of human, environmental and economic impact.

Perhaps you mean outside CUK? This is the nuclear explosion thread. There was a separate tsunami thread.

[suityou01]

And anything that flakes off the alleged melted fuels rods and radioactive sea water minerals. Not that I suggest this has happened, just that with melted fuel rods and sea water 'boiled dry' isn't such an innocuous thing, as that boiled water and everything dissolved or carried with it it ends up outside too.

I quite agree. Someone on here mentioned a filtering stage I think. Would be good to know what this is all about.

Sea water and nuclear reactors is a bad mix. At that temperature a super fast rusting takes place and renders the reactor completely foobared. The fact that they are using seawater already means they have given up on trying to reuse and are in damage limitation proper.

I should imagine if 2 out of 3 reactor cores remains sealed they will consider they have done well.

[TimberWolf]

I quite agree. Someone on here mentioned a filtering stage I think. Would be good to know what this is all about.

I mentioned filtering once, but I thought I got away with it.

[doodab]

The Germans have just announce the immediate closure of two Nuclear power stations.

Looks like the Germans are going ahead with phasing out Nuclear power.

Since coal and gas are politically unacceptable I'm looking forward to exponentially rising electricity bills.

Bye bye industrial Germany.

They have announced the suspension of recently laid plans to keep them running longer, which means that two of the ones that were due to shutdown shortly will be turned off after all. This isn't a direct consequence of the situation in Japan, the debate has been going on for some time.

BBC News | EUROPE | Germany renounces nuclear power

Environment minister stands firm on nuclear power plant closure | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 15.02.2010

[AlfredJPruffock]

So you know about MOX then - very good,

[doodab]

And anything that flakes off the alleged melted fuels rods and radioactive sea water minerals. Not that I suggest this has happened, just that with melted fuel rods and sea water 'boiled dry' isn't such an innocuous thing, as that boiled water and everything dissolved or carried with it it ends up outside too.

Unless they manage to keep it inside the outer containment vessel.

I suspect the main reason they are worrying about a meltdown isn't because it could lead to another Chernobyl but because it will cost a whole lot more to tidy up afterwards.