Japan Nuclear Coverage

[Gawdzilla Sama]

More good news. There are four reactors of the Fukushima design in Illinois.

The July Train Wreck will be held in Majorca.

[Ian]

More good news. There are four reactors of the Fukushima design in Illinois.

The July Train Wreck will be held in Majorca.

Let's make it Key West instead. I'll go.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

More good news. There are four reactors of the Fukushima design in Illinois.

The July Train Wreck will be held in Majorca.

Let's make it Key West instead. I'll go.

"Stay on Key Largo, party on Key West."

Hell, we could stay at the Winken, Blinken, and Nod Trailer Park.

[Warren Dew]

More good news. There are four reactors of the Fukushima design in Illinois.

Better start worrying if a tsunami hits Chicago.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

More good news. There are four reactors of the Fukushima design in Illinois.

Better start worrying if a tsunami hits Chicago.

If you want to see the longest fault in the United States, just trace the Mississippi. Then look to see where the reactors actually are.

[Warren Dew]

The Fukushima plant was actually fine after the earthquake. It was the tsunami that wiped out the switchgear and incapacitated the emergency diesel power.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Fukushima plant was actually fine after the earthquake. It was the tsunami that wiped out the switchgear and incapacitated the emergency diesel power.

It was fine while the power was on. All the tsunami did was cut off the power. That could happen here without a tsunami.

[Warren Dew]

It was fine while the power was on. All the tsunami did was cut off the power. That could happen here without a tsunami.

In the U.S., there was actually a "station blackout" initiative in the early 1990s that required all plants to show they could survive a loss of power.

I suspect Fukushima could also have survived if the tsunami hadn't flooded out their switchgear. Disabling of the diesel generators was separate from the loss of power to the site.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It was fine while the power was on. All the tsunami did was cut off the power. That could happen here without a tsunami.

In the U.S., there was actually a "station blackout" initiative in the early 1990s that required all plants to show they could survive a loss of power.

I suspect Fukushima could also have survived if the tsunami hadn't flooded out their switchgear. Disabling of the diesel generators was separate from the loss of power to the site.

Generators were my job in the Navy. Drop a building on them and they don't work so good.

[JimC]

More good news. There are four reactors of the Fukushima design in Illinois.

Better start worrying if a tsunami hits Chicago.

If you want to see the longest fault in the United States, just trace the Mississippi. Then look to see where the reactors actually are.

But not a currently active one, I believe. At least not at a level beyond fairly modest tremours...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

More good news. There are four reactors of the Fukushima design in Illinois.

Better start worrying if a tsunami hits Chicago.

If you want to see the longest fault in the United States, just trace the Mississippi. Then look to see where the reactors actually are.

But not a currently active one, I believe. At least not at a level beyond fairly modest tremours...

Yep, and we're over due for another ginormous quake according to the nerds.

[Geoff]

0227 GMT

Japan has started using a cooling pump at the Fukushima plant's stricken reactor 5, according to several reports quoting the Japanese government. It is thought to be a diesel-powered pump, rather than a device powered by the still-to-be-reconnected electricity supply.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[Warren Dew]

Generators were my job in the Navy. Drop a building on them and they don't work so good.

That's why you don't build additional buildings on top of nuclear power plants.

By the way, nuclear power plants were my job in the Navy.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Generators were my job in the Navy. Drop a building on them and they don't work so good.

That's why you don't build additional buildings on top of nuclear power plants.

By the way, nuclear power plants were my job in the Navy.

I'm talking about the building the emergency generators are in. If that collapses on the generators their functionality may be a tab bit reduced.

[Warren Dew]

I'm talking about the building the emergency generators are in. If that collapses on the generators their functionality may be a tab bit reduced.

That didn't happen to the diesel generators at Fukushima; why would you think it would be any different in the U.S. plants of the same design?