i work at the nations largest nuclear power plant and it is the safest place i have ever worked. They are designed to be fail-safe. almost all of the equipment would have to be out of service for it to become a danger. maybe if you knew anything about the people who ran them you would think differently.
if you worked during an outage and saw what occurs when management gets "steam fever" you would think differently about the crews. the built in redundancies have saved the country from a chernobyl on the hudson, james, deleware, atlantic or arizona desert for if there was a human way to detonate one of these plants one of these staffs would have managed to do it and still earn their safety awards
As the time is passing the need for energy and fuel on economic grounds is being felt. New industrial machines are being manufactured consuming less power & raw material and giving out more production. The nuclear reactor on the whole is also a move towards this need of man. If it is allowed to be manufactured by the countries having attained nuclear power certificates & an internationall inspection team for checking its non-disasterous production can work it'll surely help in fast development
Use of Nuclear Power for peaceful issues like generation of electricity must be dealt with co-operation and guidance. All the developing countries of the world if they can afford it must be provided with it to be an active participant in the developing industry and economy and enable them to reduce the supply & demand load due to the speedily growing world population and the needs originating due to it.
RPV stands for Reactor Pressure Vessel. This is the place where the nuclear reactions occur, and it becomes more radioactive the longer it is in use. The RPV is part of the Primary Loop - water, kept under enough pressure to keep it from boiling, tranfers the heat to the Steam Generators, where Secondary Loop water is boiled into steam.
man nuclear power plants are very unsafe if you ask me, i mean you might as well set a nuclear bomb inside that reactor housing, one day someone will make a mistake and it will destroy everything
actually, each component in a nuclear power plant has at least 2 fail-safe mechanisms. and even if they did fail. there's a very good chance that it could be contained.
see the big grey thing at 45 sec, the "cask"?its made of super thick steel designed to shield alot of the radiation coming off the vessel.This componet can be considered the heart of a PWR nuke plant where the fission process takes place and the reactor coolant system water is heated so as you can imagine its screaming w/ radiation.The cask will be surveyed 100% for contamination and dose rates then stored in a rad dump site.
Good job guys, 104 more to decommission. It's too bad that most reactors are one of a kind so that each and everyone of them will be a complex project.
Hopefully when the remaining reactors reach the end of their life they will be replaced with new ones, as opposed to just throwing out the plant. We need to build a lot more if there's any hope of reducing the use of filthy fuels like coal which contributes to tens of thousands of premature deaths annually.
Not much of the old plant is usable at the end of it's life. Parts have become old and brittle due to the radioactivity. Things just don't meet the current standards. It pretty much means the old plant gets thrown out. And, if a new plant is to be built, it could be at the same site, but it's pretty much a new one from the ground up.
The mining, milling, purification and enrichment processes have significant health affects that need to be considered.
3:50 I wonder what their plan was for accidental drop and sheilding failure? Man, that would have sucked! But man, looking at how they did this, I bet they had a backup plan for just that!
You know if they can either make nuclear power safe and/or find out how to make nuclear power have zero radiation then we wouldnt have these problems but that aint gonna happen
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Yeah but it would be cool if nuclear power existed that didnt create radiation, just heat possiblty by maybe refining it to remove a chemical that creates the radiation I dunno while still enabling the reactor to create the heat
Fukushima shows how failsafe nuclear power is.
KillerJoeFIN 9 months ago in playlist Nuclear Power
@KillerJoeFIN Deepwater Horizon shows how "failsafe" oil is, too.
nightwing36s 7 months ago
@0812201 Over here in England we use Davis-Besse in our nuclear profesionalism course of how it "most definatley should not be done"
bibbyandal 1 year ago
The longest advertise Ive ever seen :-(
Phen0mable 1 year ago 2
The managers at Chernobyl should have called Barnhart!!!
wardenphil 2 years ago 6
if you knew anything about the people that run these plants you would worry.
howardroard 2 years ago
i work at the nations largest nuclear power plant and it is the safest place i have ever worked. They are designed to be fail-safe. almost all of the equipment would have to be out of service for it to become a danger. maybe if you knew anything about the people who ran them you would think differently.
leftovergary 2 years ago 14
if you worked during an outage and saw what occurs when management gets "steam fever" you would think differently about the crews. the built in redundancies have saved the country from a chernobyl on the hudson, james, deleware, atlantic or arizona desert for if there was a human way to detonate one of these plants one of these staffs would have managed to do it and still earn their safety awards
howardroard 2 years ago
As the time is passing the need for energy and fuel on economic grounds is being felt. New industrial machines are being manufactured consuming less power & raw material and giving out more production. The nuclear reactor on the whole is also a move towards this need of man. If it is allowed to be manufactured by the countries having attained nuclear power certificates & an internationall inspection team for checking its non-disasterous production can work it'll surely help in fast development
yahoovisitor 3 years ago
Use of Nuclear Power for peaceful issues like generation of electricity must be dealt with co-operation and guidance. All the developing countries of the world if they can afford it must be provided with it to be an active participant in the developing industry and economy and enable them to reduce the supply & demand load due to the speedily growing world population and the needs originating due to it.
yahoovisitor 3 years ago
what is the rpv? is it a pressureized reactor? or the or the preeureized vessel the makes the steam pressure
Dharok60 3 years ago
RPV stands for Reactor Pressure Vessel. This is the place where the nuclear reactions occur, and it becomes more radioactive the longer it is in use. The RPV is part of the Primary Loop - water, kept under enough pressure to keep it from boiling, tranfers the heat to the Steam Generators, where Secondary Loop water is boiled into steam.
wardenphil 3 years ago
its as safe as you apply yourself in this kinda a work you have to give a fuck and be OVER trained and OVER tested....
lainey500 3 years ago
man nuclear power plants are very unsafe if you ask me, i mean you might as well set a nuclear bomb inside that reactor housing, one day someone will make a mistake and it will destroy everything
psyfertech 3 years ago
no. they are very safe.
sidstille 3 years ago 2
I see that the millions of dollars that the oil and coal industry have covertly pumped in anti-nuke propaganda were not lost on you.
albionsseed 3 years ago
you mean that they were lost?
sidstille 3 years ago
actually, each component in a nuclear power plant has at least 2 fail-safe mechanisms. and even if they did fail. there's a very good chance that it could be contained.
viperxeon 3 years ago
I wonder what kind of workers will be willing to touch and remove radioactive materials? mexicans?
gandalf117 3 years ago
see the big grey thing at 45 sec, the "cask"?its made of super thick steel designed to shield alot of the radiation coming off the vessel.This componet can be considered the heart of a PWR nuke plant where the fission process takes place and the reactor coolant system water is heated so as you can imagine its screaming w/ radiation.The cask will be surveyed 100% for contamination and dose rates then stored in a rad dump site.
DMAXDRIVR 4 years ago 2
900 tonns jesus christ!
just think about that, $1 isnt a lot, but $900 is an asstounding lot, and one tonne is very heavy. its about 300 fully loaded vans /trucks
dwarfer777 4 years ago
they ate it
dwarfer777 4 years ago 4
lol
12ampvacume 4 years ago
Good job guys, 104 more to decommission. It's too bad that most reactors are one of a kind so that each and everyone of them will be a complex project.
milofonbil 4 years ago
Hopefully when the remaining reactors reach the end of their life they will be replaced with new ones, as opposed to just throwing out the plant. We need to build a lot more if there's any hope of reducing the use of filthy fuels like coal which contributes to tens of thousands of premature deaths annually.
DrBuzz0 4 years ago 2
Not much of the old plant is usable at the end of it's life. Parts have become old and brittle due to the radioactivity. Things just don't meet the current standards. It pretty much means the old plant gets thrown out. And, if a new plant is to be built, it could be at the same site, but it's pretty much a new one from the ground up.
The mining, milling, purification and enrichment processes have significant health affects that need to be considered.
milofonbil 4 years ago
dead link
skyvader1972 4 years ago
3:50 I wonder what their plan was for accidental drop and sheilding failure? Man, that would have sucked! But man, looking at how they did this, I bet they had a backup plan for just that!
bodybager 4 years ago
y didnt they just fill it with concrete? practicality over expensive complicated engineering anyday
kevktb 4 years ago
You know if they can either make nuclear power safe and/or find out how to make nuclear power have zero radiation then we wouldnt have these problems but that aint gonna happen
coondogtheman1234 5 years ago
Pebble-bed reactors are perfectly saf enow, but you will always have radiation from splitting or fusing atoms.
neospydel 4 years ago
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Yeah but it would be cool if nuclear power existed that didnt create radiation, just heat possiblty by maybe refining it to remove a chemical that creates the radiation I dunno while still enabling the reactor to create the heat
coondogtheman1234 4 years ago
You don't have any idea of how nuclear power works do you?
stygarfield 4 years ago 10
im just saying, Geez relax
coondogtheman1234 4 years ago
I think you should watch other videos.
There is a great "Talking cat" videos from animal planet...
Toroer 4 years ago
Amazing video of true engineering!!
DragonTrew 5 years ago 2