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You Nukes are Liars for sure! Not even a single row written on the big catastrophe which affected Japan and not even a single word about the severe accident in the Fukushima power plant: explosions, huge release of radioactivity and mass evacuation, in the region.
SHAME ON YOU, LIARS!
THE TRUTH WILL SWEEP YOU AWAY!
A work in progress Didacus, thanks for your kind words though. Would you care to elaborate “huge release,” I’m curious as to what kind of numbers and facts there are backing up an honest fella like yourself.
I am used to seeing the cylindrical dome-topped, concrete containment building at US nuclear plants, and I understand these buildings are designed to withstand extreme conditions. At Fukishima there appears to be nothing but square buildings, which have been damaged. Are there containment buildings at the Japanese reactors similar to the US reactors? Thanks.
The cube shaped buildings are the reactor buildings or secondary containment. Primary containment is inside of the reactor buildings and is shaped like an inverted light bulb called a drywell. The reactor is inside of the drywell. The drywells on all six units at Fukushima are intact despite the damage to secondary containment on Units 1-4 caused by the hydrogen burns.
Another part of primary containment is called a suppression pool, which is located below the drywell and is shaped like a doughnut. There is a chance that the suppression pool on Unit 2 was damaged, but it hasn’t been confirmed yet.
This video is pretty good at describing a BWR containment system:
Hi,
I just found your blog and am very impressed.
I ‘m going to throw a link to it into my own page.
I’m an electrical engineer who designs electronics for radiation detectors for a living . I am also a pro-nuclear advocate on a very small scale.
I’ve got two projects going that may interest you. First, I did a presentation for my kids’ elementary school for Earth Day this year (yep, a month after Fukushima) entitled “A Rational Environmentalist’s Guide to Nuclear Power”:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54904454
Second, I’m turning the other side’s “think globally, act locally” meme to good use. I live in central NJ. I’m trying to get Princeton University to put a small modular re= actor on campus and take the entire university off the grid:
http://www.nucleartigers.org
I think you’re missing a bet by not covering small modular. It’s a very interesting field, with passive safety as a side benefit.
I have few queries and I hope you will answer me in details in regards.
1) What do you think could happen if, God forbade, the terrorists get successful in taking over at least one nuke, say nuclear bomb, not the nuclear missile. Do you think they could make use of the nuclear bomb without the codes or trigger? We do need codes and trigger to launch nuclear missiles and I am sure of this. Now do we need codes and trigger for nuclear “bomb” explosion too? If we do need codes and trigger to detonate a nuclear bomb, now is it possible that the codes can be decoded and atomic bomb detonated without a trigger?
2) What if the terrorist make use of the weapon grade uranium by unloading it from the nuclear bomb they have captured and use the unloaded uranium to build another nuclear bomb. Do you think this is a practical idea that another nuclear bomb from unloaded uranium, got from the captured nuke, can be produced specifically without a dedicated nuclear laboratory? All I read is that nuclear missiles are more complicated than nuclear bombs. Is that true?
I hope you reply me soon and help me remove my confusions.
Regards
I sent an email on this address: operations@nuclearfissionary.com but it bounced back. So please could you reply here in detal to my above question? Would be a great help!
I have more a question regarding a good, unbiased book I can educate myself about radiation and what the human body can take per minutes/hours/days, etc. I have read “nuclear war survival skills” by Kearny from the Oakridge institute, but that is outdated. What might you recommend Jack?