LizardKing Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 No meltdowns, and the Japanese (or accurately, the US as they are Westinghouse designed) did not miss anything. Stop with the hyperbole and stop listening to the (deliberate for ratings?) misinformation of the mainstream media. See my scientific linkages here: http://www.thai360.com/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/540147/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 LK I agree to disagree with you on this one, having worked for the National Nuclear Corporation in the UK I may know a little bit more than yourself. Westinghouse LWR (Light Water Reactor) is the PWR (Pressuerised Water Reactor) based on Bechtel SNUPPS (Standard Nuclear Unit Power Plant Systems) where as Fukushima is a BWR (Boiling Water Reactor) designed by General Electric / Idaho National Laboratory currently licensed by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. Safety Systems are listed here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardKing Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Well, the point is still the same. Change out Westinghouse for GE. Done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 LK I agree to disagree with you on this one, having worked for the National Nuclear Corporation in the UK I may know a little bit more than yourself. Westinghouse LWR (Light Water Reactor) is the PWR (Pressuerised Water Reactor) based on Bechtel SNUPPS (Standard Nuclear Unit Power Plant Systems) where as Fukushima is a BWR (Boiling Water Reactor) designed by General Electric / Idaho National Laboratory currently licensed by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. Safety Systems are listed here You are correct, the nuke was built by GE, per my little Japanese friend who worked for GE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 I know nothing about nuclear technology but I do know never to believe the media. I also don't believe a lot of what the japanese government spokesmen are saying on the situation. 2 massive explosions kind of tell me things are not under control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardKing Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Trying to save a bit of face (even tho' this fact is immaterial to my points), we are both kinda correct. Japan uses Westinghouse technology (the AP1000), but those are not the ones in the quake + tsunami zone. My bad for assuming other. I thought the GE tech was already obsoleted by the AP1000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardKing Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 I know nothing about nuclear technology but I do know never to believe the media. I also don't believe a lot of what the japanese government spokesmen are saying on the situation. 2 massive explosions kind of tell me things are not under control. If you understand the science, you can understand that this is dramatic and certainly not "A Good Thing," but not so dangerous per se. In the high temp steam, water breaks into its components. We all know how explosive hydrogen is (refer to The Hindenburg as a great example). This is a known issue, and all three of the containment vessels are made to deal with that event. The chemistry of the Cesium & Iodine and how they react in this situation make it basically a non-event. No contamination is possible outside of a very small (talking a couple hundred meters here) radius. It goes away very fast due to the nature of the elements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 i imagine more harmful pollution will arrise from fractured chemical plants and other such non nuke facilitys/factories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardKing Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 I'd say that's spot on. But much less dramatic, so the "news agencies" ignore that very real threat! LK science! And is not scammed by the dramatically uninfomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous God Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Yes - like that battery factory in India, very little news given to it. Frankly news likes any drama, nuclear or not. Iodide can be very unstable, try mixing concentrated ammonia and iodide crystals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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