juan wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:34:20 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com>
To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
Remember the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the causes for it?
Sure, the fools put a nuclear reactor in a location susceptible to both earthquakes and tsunamis...and then they forgot to provide for cooling the core to prevent meltdown in case they had to 'scram' the reaction.
"The reactors for Units 1, 2, and 6 were supplied by General Electric, those for Units 3 and 5 by Toshiba, and Unit 4 by Hitachi.
All six reactors were designed by General Electric."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Nuclear Radiation as a rational energy source for boiling water aside, it's a 'real estate problem' Location Location Location! Not that the design engineering is all that... Recently, within the last week or so in California a skin diver accidentally got into the cooling intake system for a nuclear power plant. I'd guess they can't really put screens on the inlets as trash would quickly clog it but you'd think, with all the millions of dollars spent on designing these things they would have come up with some way of keeping debris, and errant divers, out. It's been discussed, and has been hanging fire since 2010... So I'd guess keeping a tsunami from swamping a reactor after a major earthquake isn't water cooler talk at GE. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/01/local/la-me-cooling1-2010mar01 -- RR "Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers ... And neutralize them, neutralize them, neutralize them"