Recent content by Shisnu

It's worth pointing out that if a radionuclide has a very long half life, then it isn't very active, and therefore isn't as dangerous ;)

Oh I dunno, last time those two went head to head in benchmarks the T-800 came out on top, most noticeably in the 'witty remarks and one-liners' category.

The company building the new Sarcophagus is Novarka. Google can tell you more about them. As for the average radiation level, it depends on where you are in the exclusion zone. Average air background dose rate is actually lower than cities due to things like decreased air pollution. However the...

I'm not sure what you're getting at, from what I understand, the new sarcophagus is designed to correct the problems you have mentioned. I'm not concerned with your comments such as "billions stolen", as they don't really add anything to the discussion and I'm only interested in the science...

Nikkkom, your concrete plan is still impractical it makes no attempt to account for the fuel inventory. As I said before, we don't know how far the fuel has penetrated the concrete bedrock and its subsequent distribution, so even if you fill the entire building with grade A triple rad...

Here's something that may interest you, it sheds a little light on the UK perspective despite being a few years old: http://growingambitions.tes.co.uk/printpdf/2726

Curses! My ruse has been discovered. It's still running at stock clock speed. I always said the LCII was ahead of its time.

Also this seems relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OlPg0davL0

Apple LCII heavily modded and overclocked to be the equivalent of an Alienware M17x R4, with all the latest refinements. It glows pretty. CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3720QM Processor Display: 17" Display (16:9; 1920 x 1080) VGA: AMD 7970m HDD: 750GB Hard Drive (7200RPM) (500GB with 250GB caching...

1) A new sarcophagus would prevent contamination to the outside whilst defueling is carried out. 2) At the moment it's not exactly in a safe state. Since high-level waste will remain active for thousands of years, the nuclear industry and the public want assurances that it won't leak out of...

As far as I know, IAEA internships are not paid directly, however they can provide some money to cover living expenses. I don't know about UoM, they may offer something similar. I wouldn't rule out an internship just because it's not paid (not that I'm implying you would!). The skills and...

I beg your pardon, thank you for the correction. I presume the hydrogen gas came from one of the other reactors then. As for the spent fuel ponds, I'm not sure if you would be able to get to the required temperatures for any appreciable zircalloy-water oxidation, since it's not the same...

Well they in the process of building a replacement sarcophagus to fit over the rather hastily built one. It is being built on-site, just a few hundred yards form reactor #4, constructed on rails so it will simply 'slide' over the old structure. In the last couple of months they announced that...

I think the explosion was caused by hydrogen production from the oxidative reaction of Zircaloy (fuel cladding) and water. The hydrogen was vented from the primary containment surrounding the reactor but overloaded the catalytic recombiners (designed to prevent the build-up of a hydrogen-oxygen...

As far as I know, reactors #1, #2, and #3 still have some fuel contained within, as well as some in the spent fuel ponds. Over the years, a number of proposed contracts for defueling and transportation of the spent fuel to a long term storage facility have fallen through due to budgets...