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Hope to encourage discussion of issues surrounding nuclear power.
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How a Pressurized Water Nuclear Reactor works
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In a hypothetical nuclear accident of Gen3+ design, the damage is not to the environment but the public image of the nuclear industry. The only way to have another Chernobyl is perhaps to have Mag. 7+ (at 1000 gal) earthquake and a core breach and maybe... have the containment building blown with a bunker buster. For all to happen at once seems impossible.
You are 26 according to your profile and you are a Director of Engineering? You claim to have worked at TMI in the 80's. Right. Fix your profile. You have to be in your 50's.
"EVERY piece but 2 percent" OK ... thank you for conceding my point which was that not all Uranium was recovered.
I have a Masters Degree in Engineering. I certainly know how to look for credible and reliable sources.
"ill be more then happy" --> "I'll be more than happy"
However, you fail to mention that two workers of the three workers that were mixing uranium in a vat died slow death due radiation exposure. One died 12 weeks later, another 7 months later.
The fuel that did not melt was removed from the reactor. But about 1% remains.
August 1993: Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of Theoretical Nuclear Physics at CUNY, evaluated studies conducted or commissioned by the NRC on the amount of fuel left in TMI-2.
Kaku concluded: "The still unanswered questions are therefore: precisely how much uranium is left in the core, and how much uranium can collect in the bottom of the reactor to initiate re-criticality."
You don't get my point.