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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
NY Times: In Stricken Fuel-Cooling Pools, a Danger for the Longer Term Excerpt: The pools are a worry at the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant because at least two of the three have lost their roofs in explosions, exposing the spent fuel pools to the atmosphere. By contrast, reactors have strong containment vessels [...]
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
Tokyo Electric Power invested in building nuc plants in Texas. Guess that won’t be happening.
NRG Texas nuclear plans seen in doubt after Japan
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
I live not too far from Centralia. The coal fire caused subsidence so it became unsafe. However, it didn’t contaminate miles and miles of the surrounding area and make it uninhabitable.
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
Well done Doctor!
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
No, No There are 23 BWR’s in the U.S. but they are not fueled by MOX. We’re building a reprocessing plant at Savannah River but from a Feb 21 article at World Nuclear News: Excerpt: While finding a customer for the MOX is of course vital for America’s plans, a lengthy trial and approval from [...]
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
Some of the media is starting to pay attention to the hazards of the spent fuel pools. ProPublica posted an article about 3 hours ago – there aren’t any answers but at least some of the media is starting to pay attention. Status of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Question at Crippled Japanese Power Plant http://www.propublica.org/article/status-of-spent-nuclear-fuel-in-question-at-crippled-japanese-power-plant [...]
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
Here’s a fact sheet on Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant from the Nuclear Information and Research Service. They’re keeping it up-to-date with events and and it has links to information.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50691353/NIRS-Fukushima-fact-sheet-centrale-nucleare#fullscreen:on
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
I worked at TMI for 12 years (not as a technical person) and when we had drills (we were simulating an actual event)there was always an announcement prohibiting eating, drinking, and smoking to reduce potential of ingesting some bad stuff.
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
MOX fuel is another of my concerns because as you said those rods contain plutonium. The GE design didn’t require this fuel – the utility switched Unit 3 to this fuel in September 2010. France is a big user and reprocessor developing this fuel and that’s where Japan obtained it. This is interesting: Plutonium threat [...]
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
Try this link: http://www.rogerwitherspoon.com/docs/nrctechstudyosfprrisks-10-2000.pdf I was just posting excerpts from the information I found but I didn’t know how to do blockquotes. I thought it would be obvious if I posted the links before the info but maybe not. I believe this has been a part of the story the media has missed for days. [...]
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
It is the fuel assemblies that are removed and replaced during refueling outages that are submerged in these pools. Assemblies that are actually used in producing electricity are in a reactor vessel in a containment building. Fuel rods are combined into fuel assemblies (also may be called bundles). There are some differences in these between [...]
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MtnWoman commented on the diary post Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids” by Kirk James Murphy, M.D..
These spent fuel pools are more vulnerable to disaster than the core – the containment may well remain intact but those fuel pools are more vulnerable. It’s hard to imagine they haven’t been compromised in these explosions. Robert Alverez has a blog at the Instititute for Policy Studies – he’s a Senior Scholar and former [...]
