power restored to power plant

now they can try to restart the cooling pumps. hope this drama finally ends.

now they can try to restart the cooling pumps.

hope this drama finally ends.

Do you have a link for that info? I can't seem to find it. TIA

http://www.bbc.co.uk...e-east-12307698

its there too

now they can try to restart the cooling pumps.

hope this drama finally ends.

Anybody here a nuclear engineer or know enough to describe how serious, long lasting this can be?

Area very close in, like Chernobyl. If those ponds with used storage rods go dry, bigger event than Chernobyl. Chernobyl aftermath was managed poorly, yet things faded quickly from the news after people resettled and area sealed off for a few thousand years. Power plant is toast, so will have to build another, and land is in much shorter supply in Japan. New designs need to include preventing sabotage...

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now they can try to restart the cooling pumps.

hope this drama finally ends.

Anybody here a nuclear engineer or know enough to describe how serious, long lasting this can be?

The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people

now they can try to restart the cooling pumps.

hope this drama finally ends.

Its nowhere close to ending.

There are 6 reactors there, and spent fuels rods above each, or used to be above each. radiation levels are extreme enough to kill people at over 4000 microseverts. They ARE FINALLY, admitting how bad it is, yet unwilling to conceded its out of control. Trust me, they are past controlling this. Now its about damage mitgation. There will continue to be extensive damage, loss of human life, and a drastic change to any area within at least 50 miles of that facility. They haven't raised it to a level 7 chernobyl style rating, but it will be there before this is over.

They can't come close to getting enough water into those pools, and cooling things down right now. And they can't just cement the whole thing over. This is uncharted territory for even the best experts out there. TEPCO was SO far in over its head, and they didn't even know it, and nobody outside of them was smart enough to over-ride, and come in and re-direct the brave, but tepid response. Its sad and unfortunate, but the drama from this only beginning.

http://www.dailymail...ill-people.html


Its interesting because we build all of this yet we have no way to test and prepare for this type of event. Fireman can go set an old house on fire to "practice" but you can't just light off some nuke fuel, let it heat up uncontrolled without water, and then try to practice reigning it back in. The Fukishimo plant was of course a "dinosaur" in terms of present day technology, but even today, newer facilities, of which the latest were built only as recently in the 80's in the US, still have the spent fuel concerns and storage issues.

Here's a decent commentary about the storage pools. Its all quite shallow in terms of description, but its not a bad starter for nukular nubes.

http://af.reuters.co...0110318?sp=true

now they can try to restart the cooling pumps.

hope this drama finally ends.

Anybody here a nuclear engineer or know enough to describe how serious, long lasting this can be?

As I said, I've got a degree in one, but I haven't practiced it in 20+ years.

I'm not concerned about it. But I don't live in Japan either. I doubt this lasts very long once cooling is applied.

Power line goes to reactor 2, unless they are all wired into that reactor the others will have no power. Will the power hook up enable the storage tank pump as well as the reactor pump ?

Power line goes to reactor 2, unless they are all wired into that reactor the others
will have no power.
Will the power hook up enable the storage tank pump as well as the reactor pump ?

http://en.wikipedia....clear_accidents