8.9

[ResearchMonkey]

Lieberman say we need to "put the brakes on" any new nuke here in the U.S.

I guess he hasn't paid attention the LAST THIRTY YEARS!

 

[catocom]

My kid heard someone say it moved the island 8 feet & knocked the earths rotation off a bit

yeah that's pretty messed up.
They also say part of the land mass changed elevation, so the water that flooded in, won't go back.
The coastline is forever changed.

The rip in the ocean floor is said to be 50 miles by 150 miles.
I wonder how deep it is.?

 

[catocom]

oh, another thing is...
it's said that it may have slow the rotation speed of the earth slightly, so the may be more time in a day. (by seconds, or minutes)
If that's the case, it gonna mess up some clocks and watches.

Personally I think the 10 degree shift in the pole is what is starting all of these anomalies to start with,
and it'll probably get worse, if the poles are in the middle of a switch.

 

[Winky]

8.9 isn't enough to slow em down

You can recover more quickly and better from a Nuclear Bomb than Diversity

 

[Gonz]

Is that you Winks?

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Throttle up 106% on reactor #3

As if that wasn't enough for Japan.....Blofeld's volcanic lair blew up

 

[2minkey]

Lieberman say we need to "put the brakes on" any new nuke here in the U.S.

I guess he hasn't paid attention the LAST THIRTY YEARS!

joe's had a dick in his butt for a while now...

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Super earthquake No2 alert in Japan

 

[2minkey]

 

[Gonz]

Why can't/doesn't a nuke plant use it's own generated power to power itself? Seems silly to be on the grid when you are the one generating a bazillion megawatts. Hell, even emergency power...the hell with diesel generators.

 

[Winky]

give back that Nuclear Engineering degree!

yer kidding Right?

 

[catocom]

I dunno why it couldn't supply it's own electricity, with multiple reactors,
but it would take a hell of a lot to drive those pumps.
Diesel motors have way more torque.

 

[Gonz]

Re: give back that Nuclear Engineering degree!

yer kidding Right?

No. What am I missing?

 

[Winky]

8.9 is never enough

the reactors immediately scrammed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram

the decay heat was (is) the issue

sorry I guess I took it for granted that
a machinist and a truck driver knew all about
nuclear science

 

[Gonz]

You missed the point entirely.

On a daily basis, they're on the main grid. I suppose that works. In the event of an emergency, they shift to backup generators, powered by diesel, in this case. The question is, why, on a daily basis, or at least in an emergency, can't the entire facility use its own generated AC power on a closed self-maintaining system?

 

[catocom]

Re: 8.9 is never enough

sorry I guess I took it for granted that
a machinist and a truck driver knew all about
nuclear science

perpetual motion
perpetual energy
anti-gravity
antimatter
magnetism
.....
I figured we would have had all that figured out by now.

 

[Winky]

The future is now

 

[catocom]

we should be well past this....
http://www.space1999.org/images/gallery/pictures_photos/space1999-moonbasealpha_1152x864-1.png

 

[Winky]

Gonz what part of this are you failing to understand?

If any nuke plant loses power from the grid
all reactors are designed to automatically,
without human intervention, scram!

At this point the plant is NOT producing power.

then...

Onsite diesel powered backups power the cooling pumps
to continue cooling the core(s) as the decay heat is dissipated
over a matter of weeks.

Unless a freaking tsunami wipes em out.

Do ya got it now?

Do I have to explain Why the reactor would shut itself off
if the grid goes down?

 

[catocom]

Do I have to explain Why the reactor would shut itself off
if the grid goes down?

the 'grid' didn't go down.
Yeah I'll ask....
why can't it still use the input, and just disconnect the output?