tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post8354355250808979686..comments2024-03-28T14:32:19.334+00:00Comments on Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: Explosion at Japanese Nuclear Plant ...Pastoriushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-80425314341069658812011-03-13T00:02:09.698+00:002011-03-13T00:02:09.698+00:00That was one of four passenger trains missing. Dep...That was one of four passenger trains missing. Depending on which one it was there may have been as many as 400 people onboard.midnight riderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18438029111428393889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-39794178878925468172011-03-12T23:51:13.608+00:002011-03-12T23:51:13.608+00:00Thanks, Anonymous.
Was anyone on it at the time?Thanks, Anonymous.<br /><br />Was anyone on it at the time?Pastoriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-9359189789768403952011-03-12T23:14:47.518+00:002011-03-12T23:14:47.518+00:00http://twitpic.com/48wv4w/full
image of one of th...http://twitpic.com/48wv4w/full<br /><br />image of one of the missing trains locatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-18467950122517045672011-03-12T15:17:32.137+00:002011-03-12T15:17:32.137+00:00John Cooper's comments copied from GatewayPund...John Cooper's comments copied from GatewayPundit: "Nuclear reactors are not like a pot of water boiling on your kitchen stove. They continue to produce decay heat for weeks after the reactor is shut down due to the radioactive decay of fission by-products. Those megawatts of heat must continuously be removed using the Residual Heat Removal [RHR] system. Failing to cool the reactor after shutdown results in core heatup and possibly core meltdown. The RHR systems I’m familiar with use redundant 400HP vertical shaft centrifugal pumps driven by electric motors to circulate the hot water through heat exchangers to cool the water in the reactor.<br /><br />When the reactor is shut down (“scrammed”), the plant depends upon offsite utility power to run the RHR pumps and other safety equipment. When the plant loses offsite power (as happened at Fukushima), there are three huge diesel generators that start up automatically to provide emergency backup power. At least that’s the theory.<br /><br />At Fukushima, some dumb ass design engineer decided it was a good idea to locate the diesels where they could be flooded. No diesels means no electric power to run the emergency systems to cool the plant. Apparently they had the steam-powered auxiliary feedwater pumps for a while.<br /><br />Now they’re totally fooked. It must be real dark in the control room at the moment.<br /> <br />“In a BBC report a nuclear physicist stated that if they use sea water to cool the reactor, they have written off the reactor for ever being used again. Too many contaminants in sea water, the reactor will be scrapped if they do this.”<br /><br />That’s exactly correct. The chlorine in the salt water causes stress-corrosion cracking in the stainless steel piping. The plant will never operate again if exposed to sea water.<br /><br />Also, if they’re desperate enough to pump sea water in there, I’m wondering what they are going to do with the radioactive runoff. Let it drain out to sea, probably. With no electricity, what else can they do?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com