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Merged nuclear power safe?

Well this is starting border of dangerous panic because apparently you can cause serious health consequences if you don't administer the iodine tablets correctly.
 
technoextreme said:
Well this is starting border of dangerous panic because apparently you can cause serious health consequences if you don't administer the iodine tablets correctly.
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Yes. Everyone who wants to live through the apocalypse of the Fukushima plant explosion -- you know, the one that caused a tsunami where tens of thousands perished --, here is how to take your anti-radiation medicine: you need to swallow your iodine pills (all of them) and then go outside and do the Happy Hamster Hop counter-clockwise (because the Wind of Death is coming from the East; U.S. West Coasters need to do it clockwise) or the ingredients will not be properly absorbed.

This will also help your neighbors in spotting the true idiots in your neck of the woods.
 
Alferd_Packer said:
What are you refering to as a "drywell?"

I hope that your definition of the term is different than mine.

To me a drywell is a "dry" boring deep into the earth for disposal of liquid wastes.
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The drywell, which surrounds the reactor vessel and recirculation loops,
• A suppression chamber, which stores a large body of water (suppression pool),
• An interconnecting vent network between the drywell and the suppression chamber, and
• The secondary containment, which surrounds the primary containment (drywell and suppression
pool) and houses the spent fuel pool and emergency core cooling systems.
 

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Aepervius said:
For germany I can tell you : in some region we have election next week end. I can imagine that they are trying to use the situation, or limiting political damage. On the french side I can only speculate.

ETA: correction my GF just said me it is actually in 2 weeks we vote.
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We have actually seven state elections this year. Given the current atmosphere here, the current government will lose big time, if they don't give in - at least temporarily - to those buying jodine tablets and Geiger counters at the moment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2011_elections_in_Germany
 
timhau said:
Yes. Everyone who wants to live through the apocalypse of the Fukushima plant explosion -- you know, the one that caused a tsunami where tens of thousands perished --, here is how to take your anti-radiation medicine: you need to swallow your iodine pills (all of them) and then go outside and do the Happy Hamster Hop counter-clockwise (because the Wind of Death is coming from the East; U.S. West Coasters need to do it clockwise) or the ingredients will not be properly absorbed.

This will also help your neighbors in spotting the true idiots in your neck of the woods.
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I was referring to Germany when I wrote that because they are actually outdoing us in the stupid department. Guess what Germans are now wasting their money on?
 
Skwinty said:
I was talking to a German colleague today who is out here for the outage.

He tells me it is indeed elections soon and if the Greens win then it's goodbye to the nuclear program.

If the Greens lose, then it's carry on up the Khyber.
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If the Greens win, that sound you hear is the German economy in general going bye bye since they seem to have a basic dislike of ecomomic growth.
 
BenBurch said:
This is a very serious event. Just about as bad as can happen with a BWR of that vintage if indeed containment is breached and actual core material has leaked.

Not nuclear devastation, but significant contamination that will be in the 100 billion range for remediation.

They will now have to sink coffer dams all around the site to limit groundwater and ocean contamination, and likely an evacuation zone in the immediate vicinity of the plant will be semi-permanent.

If we have a fuel fire, then this will get a lot worse.
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I've had to roll this around my brain for a while, scroll up+down quite a lot and generally wonder wtf? before responding.

And I don't really know how to respond without sounding like a nutcase.
Are you serious? Can you explain? That's not a challenge, btw, as I have only superficial knowledge of the subject. 100 billion ??
 
Now they are reporting the other power plant is in danger, and are evacuating the area around it. That makes at least eight reactors in trouble!

I don't like this at all.
 
dudalb said:
If the Greens win, that sound you hear is the German economy in general going bye bye since they seem to have a basic dislike of ecomomic growth.
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The Greens will win exactly what? Absolute majority? Of what? And what about the Left party?

Please remember that other countries don't necessarily have a two-party democracy. And we don't have a (regular) federal election this year. Get thyself edumacated on the current political situation over here before making baseless comments.

You're sounding like all the chicken-littles over here, except you're on the other side, predicting - slightly gleefully - doom and gloom to those countries that are not exactly gung-ho about nukular power.
 
r-j said:
Now they are reporting the other power plant is in danger, and are evacuating the area around it. That makes at least eight reactors in trouble!

I don't like this at all.
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Who are they?

Most recent update on the BBC is this:

1832: The AP news agency is quoting Tepco as saying a new power line is almost ready which could end the crisis. The disruption of power to the pumps which send coolant through the reactors is what led to their overheating.
 
r-j said:
CNN is reporting it on live TV
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Ah, okay, thanks. BBC posted this update-- I wonder if this is the same info that CNN is referencing?

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1837: Gregory Jaczko, head of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has said there is no water left in the spent fuel pool in reactor four, adding: "We believe that radiation levels are extremely high." Mr Jaczko was speaking to Congress in Washington and it was not immediately clear where his information had come from.
 
They are talking about a separate other power plant, the second plant, they said the reactors are overheating.
 
r-j said:
They are talking about a separate other power plant, the second plant, they said the reactors are overheating.
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Which plant specifically? The four reactors at the Fukushima Daini site were reported earlier this week to have successfully reached the cold shutdown stage, and all cooling systems were working normally.
 
So now we have another reactor overheating and a storage pool completely dry?

Hang on while I put on my sunglasses.
 
Skwinty said:
I was talking to a German colleague today who is out here for the outage.

He tells me it is indeed elections soon and if the Greens win then it's goodbye to the nuclear program.
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Germany's nuclear program is being phased out, that has been the status quo for several years now.
 
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