FAQs about nuclear energy

warpedpink said:
Because "wiki" (yay!!!!) is a fun word as opposed to boring acronyms like NRC or IAEA *yawn*

Kidding.. For serious projects that require totally factual info, I go straight to the source but when getting info I just kinda want to know, I google it and click whatever the top result is.
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feels bad, man. when looking at a list of result, I look for date and link (.edu, .org, and .gov). any link with .com is the last thing I look at because it's mostly written by armchair expert and :crazy: people.

try this out in google - fukushima nuclear power plant

the first thing on the list is wikipedia (which is expected). and then rest are news and some :crazy: blogs. Notice how there are no links to actual source such as nuclear engineering organization/government for the next few pages? :dunno:

It's all about the power of SEO marketing to appear on first page to generate profits and they don't care if their information is erroneous. They profit from ineptitude and it's a damn good business. ka ching. :cool2:
 
Miss-Delectable said:
True, 30 billions was wiped off the Aussie market. Now the Aussie dollar is down just a tad bit *whimpers*

Who knows how far the radiation will go.....

Govt don't know what the truth is just like anyone else, I'm thinking. But if they do, then they and their families will be better prepared than majority of their citizens.

I'll be sure to gave my cat some lap time today. :)
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Oops I forgot Cats! Sorry. Yeah I can tell you there is conversation here in the bay that if anything were to happen the notice would be at the last second. The fear is that the government won't risk the blow to the economy unless it is certain. That's just what I have heard in the coffee shops and bars
 
warpedpink said:
I don't want to read about the construction of a nuclear power plant. I just wanted to know how it will affect the people I know in California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. The NY Times says there's nothing to be concerned about. So that's that... For now, anyway :)
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IMO - reading about construction of Fukushima power plant and understanding the basic fundamental of nuclear power can pretty much answer all of your questions.

Why would you trust what NY Times say? They're not nuclear experts. Everyone lies. :hmm:
 
In case of nuclear fallout... like Chernobyl, there was a very large number of thyroid cancers. Why?

hint - It was the cows :hmm:
 
TXgolfer said:
Oops I forgot Cats! Sorry. Yeah I can tell you there is conversation here in the bay that if anything were to happen the notice would be at the last second. The fear is that the government won't risk the blow to the economy unless it is certain. That's just what I have heard in the coffee shops and bars
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Duh. Govt's bottom line and main concern is economy.

Americans does not have much faith in their Govt from all that goss you heard in the bay, eh?
 
Miss-Delectable said:
Duh. Govt's bottom line and main concern is economy.

Americans does not have much faith in their Govt from all that goss you heard in the bay, eh?
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Lol.... No not much faith in our government's honesty and much less faith in Japan's government right now.
 
I wonder what happens if we discard the spent uranium rods into outer space? Will that cause cosmic collsions with other stars or mess up the universe? I don't know.

That's what make sun lights up by that kind of reaction of those elements.

If you could take the Sun apart, and stack up its various elements, you would find that the Sun is made of hydrogen (74%) and helium (about 24%). Astronomers consider anything heavier than helium to be a metal. The remaining amount of the Sun is made of iron, nickel, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, magnesium, carbon, neon, calcium and chromium. In fact, the Sun is 1% oxygen; and everything else comes out of that last 1%.
 
Jiro said:
good link but it's for Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). Fukushima is Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)
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Yeah, just the basic on how it works. I know there are three types. The one in Russia are hmmm I forgot. :-/ A bunch of them in Russia are running today just like the type that blew up back in '86.
 
sequoias said:
I wonder what happens if we discard the spent uranium rods into outer space? Will that cause cosmic collsions with other stars or mess up the universe? I don't know.

That's what make sun lights up by that kind of reaction of those elements.

If you could take the Sun apart, and stack up its various elements, you would find that the Sun is made of hydrogen (74%) and helium (about 24%). Astronomers consider anything heavier than helium to be a metal. The remaining amount of the Sun is made of iron, nickel, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, magnesium, carbon, neon, calcium and chromium. In fact, the Sun is 1% oxygen; and everything else comes out of that last 1%.
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Which one.... hmmmm....

store it in Yucca Mountain for decades with a low probability of risk while it slowly poisons Earth....

or... send it into space with a high probability of risk (ie. worldwide contamination if a rocket exploded mid-air)
 
Jiro said:
Which one.... hmmmm....

store it in Yucca Mountain for decades with a low probability of risk while it slowly poisons Earth....

or... send it into space with a high probability of risk (ie. worldwide contamination if a rocket exploded mid-air)
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Uhhhh that's tough.
 
Jiro said:
good link but it's for Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). Fukushima is Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)
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It looks like PWR is safer than BWR because it does not carry out radiation out of the shelded reactor.
 
sequoias said:
Yeah, just the basic on how it works. I know there are three types. The one in Russia are hmmm I forgot. :-/ A bunch of them in Russia are running today just like the type that blew up back in '86.
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Chernobyl = BWR with dozens of flawed protocols and :crazy: design
America = PWR
 
sequoias said:
It looks like PWR is safer than BWR because it does not carry out radiation out of the shelded reactor.
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that's why American nuclear plants and our nuclear submarines use PWR. and so does France.
 
Jiro said:
that's why American nuclear plants and our nuclear submarines use PWR. and so does France.
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I understand a few of our reactors use the same design as the Japanese ones under discussion.
 
Beowulf said:
I understand a few of our reactors use the same design as the Japanese ones under discussion.
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both were designed by GE.

My brother told me that Senator shut down nuclear power plant and ordered safety review. I dunno which state and I haven't confirmed his statement yet.
 
Jiro said:
both were designed by GE.

My brother told me that Senator shut down nuclear power plant and ordered safety review. I dunno which state and I haven't confirmed his statement yet.
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Good old GE: bringing good things to life. :)
 
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