Earthquake in Japan....9.0...ouch!

drunkenmaster said:
Theres two sets of things in a Nuclear reactor, afaik, you've got essentially two separated systems, the internal one has rods exposed to water, this turns to steam, goes up, turns the turbine, the goes through a cooling system to bring it back down to liquid, drop and get turned back to steam. Thats basically completed sealed system to contain the radiation.
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Normally theres 3, just 2 in this design. The system which you are describing to cool the steam after ther turbine is the condensor and actually uses just sea or river water, hence the heat wave in France had to reduce the nuclear plant output due to the hotter rivers not providing sufficient cooling.

Wiki has some decent enough diagrams.
 
2 things that concern me:

1 - With this radiation in the air, will it give me cancer if the wind blows it to England?
2 - When will Activision release a Fukushima map?
 
hola_adios said:
Two answers:

1- Everything is possible
2- Don't troll this thread.
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Two further points:

1. Some people actually do worry about this stuff. This won't be the last comment along those lines you hear.
2. This thread needs some light relief. I thought it was quite amusing.
 
Maximum respect to the men and women still at the Fukushima plant battling to prevent meltdown. I'm sure they've all by now had a pretty serious dosing and know damn well that they have.
 
Lysander said:
Two further points:

1. Some people actually do worry about this stuff. This won't be the last comment along those lines you hear.
2. This thread needs some light relief. I thought it was quite amusing.
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Everything is possible what else you want to know ... depends on amount of radiation, winds ...

And no, a situation like this doesn't need relief, I am using this thread, and thanks a lot to those posting updates, like a source of information. I have very good friends in Japan, and any updates I can get about the situation, and not stupid and childish comments, are welcomed.
 
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tom91x91 said:
meh i was expecting a huge mushroom cloud not a bit of smoke.
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There might be some relief knowing they can't explode in an atomic matter, just leak and melt. Problem now appears to be no roof to contain the real mess if the core melts and fuel rods get taken up with the steam. The steams from the coolant leaks is not currently an issue to due low the radiation and high dispersion.

Its like a chipfat fryer fire with no damp towel to put on the top of it :( The fat gets carried upwards.
 
hola_adios said:
And no, a situation like this doesn't need relief, I am using this thread, and thanks a lot to those posting updates, like a source of information
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Because there aren't a hundred news sites you could use for that, are there. Ever noticed the title of this board is 'general discussion'? It's not a news RSS, in spite of how some people treat it. It's an immense newsworthy issue, it will invite opinion.
 
When the Chernobyl reactor exploded there was a risk from a secondary steam explosion due to the water beneath the reactor getting superheated by the nuclear material.

Is that a possibility here?
 
New tsunami warnings just issued powerful aftershocks or something. Was on sky news and peope told stay in and don't drink tap water and cover mouth and nose with wet cloth.
 
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