Recent content by zardiw

Thank you. I also considered L position, but then only one side of the angle iron would be under tension on a load...while the other would tend to just bend easily. So was thinking the V position would put both sides under tension on a load...What do you think? Anybody else?...I guess it would...

Hi All. Given a 20 inch L bar with 1" sides. If 6 inches of this bar is buried in a concrete wall horizontally, which orientation would render the most downward force strength? 1. A V orientation with the tip of the V pointing down. 2. A V orientation with the tip of the V pointing up. 3...

Found some Worst Case info: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nuclear-meltdown-essential-questions-japanese-reactors/story?id=13134767 z

Yeah...people keep comparing this with Chernobyl...down the road aways, when the next one happens, they'll be comparing it with Fukushima...lol...z

Well...the water table can't be that deep there...when it hits it...will get a lot of radioactive steam coming up right?

Well. We have 2 reactors that have totally melted down in Japan. What I'd like to know is what the consequences of that is...i.e. Now what? What will happen now that you have molten pools of radioactive material at the bottom of the containment vessels...with no carbon rods slowing down the...