Nuclear Power Plants

[dbacks fan]

OK, now we need guidelines.  Is this with ability to report PM's?  Can we egg him on?  Can anyone say who he really is online?

I'm just going to wait and see. I won't instigate or email mods.

[Teatownclown]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-nuclear-advocates-try-to-limit-political-impact-of-japan-reactor-crisis/2011/03/17/AB6sr0k_story.html

"Nuclear power advocates are waging an intense lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill this week in an attempt to limit the political fallout from the reactor crisis in Japan, which threatens to undermine already shaky plans for expanded nuclear capacity in the United States."  Imagine that.

[Conan71]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-nuclear-advocates-try-to-limit-political-impact-of-japan-reactor-crisis/2011/03/17/AB6sr0k_story.html

"Nuclear power advocates are waging an intense lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill this week in an attempt to limit the political fallout from the reactor crisis in Japan, which threatens to undermine already shaky plans for expanded nuclear capacity in the United States."  Imagine that.

And in other news, no nukes advocates are waging an intense lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill this week in an attempt to capitalize on political fallout from the reactor crisis in Japan, which threatens to undermine already shaky plans for expanded nuclear capacity in the United States. 

It's happy daze for the no-nukes crowd.

[Gaspar]

And in other news, no nukes advocates are waging an intense lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill this week in an attempt to capitalize on political fallout from the reactor crisis in Japan, which threatens to undermine already shaky plans for expanded nuclear capacity in the United States. 

It's happy daze for the no-nukes crowd.

Visions of 3 Mile Island dance in their heads. . .Of course now we know that the back seat of Ted Kennedy's car killed more people than 3 Mile Island.

[Conan71]

Visions of 3 Mile Island dance in their heads. . .Of course now we know that the back seat of Ted Kennedy's car killed more people than 3 Mile Island.

Bahahahaha!

[dbacks fan]

Visions of 3 Mile Island dance in their heads. . .Of course now we know that the back seat of Ted Kennedy's car killed more people than 3 Mile Island.

You do know that 3MI reactor one is still producing power and is licensed until 2034?

[Gaspar]

You do know that 3MI reactor one is still producing power and is licensed until 2034?

Yes, and fewer people have died there than in the back seat of Ted Kennedy's car. 

[patric]

"Helicopters dropped water, only to have it scattered by strong breezes. Water cannons mounted on police trucks — equipment designed to disperse rioters — were then deployed to spray water on the pools."

The irony -- water cannons that were used against anti-nuclear protesters are now being used against the things they were protesting.
God surely has a wicked sense of humor.

[Teatownclown]

It's happy daze for the no-nukes crowd.

Not at all. Most are just totally disgusted by the culture war that obliterates decent and good discussion on an educated basis.

The rest are just dismayed by lousy Japanese engineering. Or was it just another big company making a big mistake?

[patric]

Arent those GE plants?

[Teatownclown]

Arent those GE plants?

In a way, yes. This will become the world's largest dirt ball. Perhaps, we can export some Teahadists there to start a foreign colony.

[nathanm]

In a way, yes. This will become the world's largest dirt ball. Perhaps, we can export some Teahadists there to start a foreign colony.

pancakes are you on about?

[Hoss]

pancakes are you on about?

He never learns.  Wonder when he'll start babbling about someone hijacking his account again...

[patric]

The New York Times reports that GE marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi plant, as cheaper to build than other reactors because they used a comparatively smaller and less expensive containment structure.

Yet American safety officials have long thought the smaller design more vulnerable to explosion and rupture in emergencies than competing designs. (By the way, the same design is used in 23 American nuclear reactors at 16 plants.)

In the mid-1980s, Harold Denton, then an official with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said Mark 1 reactors had a 90 percent probability of bursting should the fuel rods overheat and melt in an accident. A follow-up report from a study group convened by the Commission concluded that "Mark 1 failure within the first few hours following core melt would appear rather likely."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/safety-on-the-cheap_b_836347.html

[patric]

"I don't think we have a nuclear problem just because of what happened in Japan," said Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.).

"Once in 300 years, a disaster occurs and they're all waiting for it and the Japanese are calm and collected, and only the politicians over here are hysterical,"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51301.html