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To make a real difference, they need to get offsite power and get those pumps running again. |
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Dumping water on an overheated nuclear reactor with a compromised container vessel WILL do SOMETHING....it will likely get everyone aboard those helicopters a lethal dose of radiation and will ensure everyone of those helicopters get thrown into the Marianas Trench when this is over.
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This TEPCO guy is the Iraqi Tank Man all over again. I wonder if they are related. |
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It's a suicide mission...the Russians did it at Chernobyl....and the people aboard the helicopters were dead to the last man. Except I think the Russians were dropping sand rather than water. |
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#156 |
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Chernobyl didn't use water as a moderator, they used graphite. So water wasn't as important for that reactor. Didn't really matter, the reactor was blown across the country side.
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http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...icle-graveyard I foresee a similar vehicle graveyard in Japan's future. |
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#158 | |
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Conditions may be improving. Hope this is the direction this accident keeps going in.
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I have also seen readings of 65 psig inside unit 2 containment which could prove to be an indication it hasn't been breached. |
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Hey I have another dumb question, keeping in mind that I'm not a nuclear scientist or anything like that, but if the big problem was running electrical lines, why isnt there a set of ready to hook up lines buried somewhere, where they can pull a couple of super industrial sized generators right up there and hook up, start running power, and go from there?
I mean I know that they cant fix every problem that may ever occur, but that kinda seems obvious.
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As I understand it, they had exactly that. It was already hooked up to a set of super industrial sized generators, that got trashed in the tsunami. What you're talking about is just too big for it to be trucked in at a whim, even if the roads and infrastructure was still intact (which it wasn't), except maybe in a Godzilla movie.
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