Breaking news : Fukushima Reactor

[gotmilk]

Mitsubishi has figured out how to build nuclear plants using a sodium based reactor. At $1 Billion per 30 MegaWatts.

 

[jnevin]

I'm so glad this board is filled with nuclear engineers

Just because you're chinese doesn't mean you know everything.

 

[axismundi]

Energy wise, they have no choice. Wind turbines, solar panels, natural gas plants cannot produce the same amounts they need.

They should have at least gone liquid thorium or something similar... much safer, I get why they have this plant I think it's 30-40 years old and thorium wasn't in great supply then, but now when they mine things like lithium and other rare-earth materials they mine up thorium in abundance, and aside from use in molten thorium reactors... it doesn't really have any other industrial uses.

Maybe this will be a lesson to Japan, and other nations, to finally use the safer nuclear options.

 

[gotmilk]

They should have at least gone liquid thorium or something similar... much safer, I get why they have this plant I think it's 30-40 years old and thorium wasn't in great supply then, but now when they mine things like lithium and other rare-earth materials they mine up thorium in abundance, and aside from use in molten thorium reactors... it doesn't really have any other industrial uses.

Maybe this will be a lesson to Japan, and other nations, to finally use the safer nuclear options.

There's some real irony in having one of the world's safest cores and using a diesel generator as a backup plan.

They should have run underground cables from the nearest substation as a backup.

 

[axismundi]

There's some real irony in having one of the world's safest cores and using a diesel generator as a backup plan.

They should have run underground cables from the nearest substation as a backup.

With all the wonderful sea water right there, they should have just had a small-scale hydrogen generation facility and a hydrogen generators right there. Half a million dollars and they wouldn't have had to worry. Hindsight I guess.

 

[pdaddyII]

God, just total devastation. I was supposed to be signing up with DMAT(Disaster Medical Assistance Team) but more or less forgot. I really wish I could be over there helping though, makes me sick to my stomach.

 

[Spartacus]

can Japan rebuild?

 

[PICK3]

bant reactors in the Pacific Rim of Fire!

 

[Spartacus]

well let's take a look;
no rioting and looting
populace has experience dealing with nuclear fall out
a very disciplend and intelligent society that has respect for others
yes Japan will recover
and stronger

 

[Spartacus]

really
like the moon walk youngsters bounce around in for a few minutes and move onto somethin'
else