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“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain” -
Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostWe could always try dropping bucketloads of Agents though. They are, after all, all wind and piss!!
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostThat is assuming that in times of a crisis you can find any of us
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
True, but gravity does work in your favour in that you can open some valves and flood the place.
If the overheating is only temporary (as in a week or two for short-lived isotopes to decay, having stopped the main reactions) then flooding it with water might be fine, given enough temporary expansion space for the resulting steam and maybe heat exchangers to condense it as far as possible.
Otherwise the best bet would be simply to collapse a few hundred yards of tunnel round the sizzling glowing mess (in the event of meltdown say), along with quick setting liquid concrete and several foot thick steel plugs etc as necessary, and start drilling a new tunnel parallel to the first where a replacement reactor could be sited.
This assumes a tree-like system of tunnels, with main "trunk" passages and reactor passages branching off these.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostNo disadvantages?
What about efficiency, which effects cost.
A 1GW reactor might need say 2GW of thermal energy to remove. I'm not sure how multiple cooling circuits address that, but even if they did, multiple circuits reduce efficiency, since the primary cooling circuit would presumably be warmer than would a single cooling circuit. Efficiency being 1- Temp_Cold/Temp_Hot
It's also hotter underground meaning another efficiency hit and energy needed to cool equipment and humans
Even if a vertical tunnel chimney were used to vent super hot steam, I imagine a lot of it would fall back down as hot rain before it escaped, unless there were a mega updraught, reducing efficiency.
People disposing of spent fuel rods seem to spend a lot of time figuring out good places to bury spent waste, so I imagine the same headaches will exist for reactor sites.
Anyway, don't forget that "waste" heat could be used to provide central heating and hot water for houses, even heating under motorways to prevent them freezing.
Flippin' heck - I've practically designed this thing already!
Also, to address doodab's question, earthquakes have _less_ of an effect on tunnels than on surface structures - see article here :
Experience shows that underground structures, especially deep ones, are far less vulnerable to earthquakes than superficial ones. The latter are endangered by earthquakes due to the fact that the motion of the ground can be amplified by the response of the structure to such an extent that the induced strains damage the structure. The earthquake waves can also be amplified within soft superficial strata. In addition, loose water-saturated soil may loose its strength (so-called liquefaction), and this can lead to landslides or failure of foundations and retaining walls. In contrast, deep buried structures, especially flexible ones, are not expected to oscillate independently of the surrounding ground, i.e. amplification of the ground motion can be excluded. This is manifested by the relatively low earthquake damage of tunnels.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostAnyway, don't forget that "waste" heat could be used to provide central heating and hot water for houses, even heating under motorways to prevent them freezing.
Flippin' heck - I've practically designed this thing already!
Also, to address doodab's question, earthquakes have _less_ of an effect on tunnels than on surface structures - see article here :Comment
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Check out the earthquake forces experienced at the Fukushima plants: Fukushima faced 14-metre tsunami
...but available figures put the maximum acceleration as 507 gal from east to west at unit 3
3g in the vertical direction too. So as well as getting shaken about like a rag doll in an earthquake, you'd feel pretty heavy too. Though perhaps these accelerations, in any particular direction, only last fractions of a second. Like being pulled backwards and forwards and up and down at some unspecified frequency.Comment
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