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It just seems so sloppy from a contam control point of view, as expected for the conditions I guess. Using the ocean to dilute soluble emissions is very accepted. So long as they are careful the ocean doesn't act as 'sheilding' to some really hot stuff to go undetected, until it washes up...

I wonder if roy2008 is still out there? If you are, have you left your house lately?

something that is going on that seems odd to me is the pumping of the radioactive liquid waste direct to ocean. I am sure there must be a significant amount of long lived/insoluble/particle type rad waste in there? Is there not a good chance these hot particles could get caught up in ocean...

post 3000. Holy cow. Chinese, Japanese,Dirty Knees, Look at these... posts

@tyroman, Hi, my experience is nothing really, only that candu's have h2 igniters for this reason, mind you there is certainly no N2 cover gas for containment in candu's ...check the below link incase you haven't come across a chart such as this one... page 7/42...

There is no shortage of oxygen in the containment is there, it is air after all? Steam is factored when determining the hydrogen deflagration/detonation ranges of H2 in air. The presense of steam limits the ranges for explosion, but does not eliminate it.

However, if they had the design (someone said earlier they do) to vent via stacks to the outside, it would seem ridiculous to CHOOSE to vent inside, as the H2 Zr/steam reaction is well known. If it was chosen to vent inside just to allow decay of radiation before emitting outside, you might...

http://nei.cachefly.net/newsandevents/information-on-the-japanese-earthquake-and-reactors-in-that-region/ So how does this happen? wasn't #4 the de-fuelled reactor? Would an entry to set up a flow into the fuel bay not have been possible (when the fuel was still covered) if they had...

this morning when there were reports of 40 Rem/h at the station, and 800 mR/h at the station boundary... what kind of radiation/isotopes might cause that? Short-lived stuff that will decay away quickly? Noble gas cloud type radiation, or particulates? Obviously the levels have come down...

This is not true... nuclear plants are, rightfully so, held to a much higher standard than other industries. An earthquake could topple down a 100 story hospital full of women and babies right onto a collection of schools and the reaction would be less, and not nearly as long lasting, with...

CANDU looks right up there?

Well that's right for sure, if I got drunk at the panel then how would I drive home?

Hey get out of my head! You're reading my mind now :smile: I was just wondering that very thing while looking at the two pictures... I was picturing looking out from one of the MW spiral arms towards the center, and it wasn't adding up that it would be seen as curved. Thanks again!

Wow, yes that is quite the APOD photo... beautiful. While googling the milky way before posting I ran across the photo below, which is pretty striking as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg I'll keep an eye out for this M31... pretty clever name, its...

Well that clears a lot up then... about 29 years of the wrong mental model on this one. I didn't realize that. Thanks. Seems pretty boring now though... just kidding... kind of. I'm going to have to go buy one of those Hubble dillies to check out all those galaxies now.