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baggydave


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09-06-2008 09:49 PM

Interesting facts on nuclear power - Russians decided to do their own thing and designed an inherently unsafe reactors (RBMK/Chernobyl).

Americans built a bullet proof one ( PWR)but still did their best to destroy it (TMI) by deciding not to believe their instruments and turn off the cooling water supply.

They'd had a previous go when they'd had a powercut. Not having a torch in the control room they thought they'd use the next best thing and light a candle to check some circuits and managed to burn through important safety cabling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browns_Ferr...ower_Plant Fortunately we haven't got a nuclear power station operated by stupid Americans in SE23 or else we may have had similar near miss yesterday.

Two more interesting facts that may interest our friend on the wrong side of the tracks - Greenwich is (or was) a nuclear free zone but until recent years had a research reactor in the former Naval College (now Greenwich University)

And ditto for Lambeth that allows nuclear fuel through for reprocessing from Dungeness to Sellafield.

And forget wind turbines and solar generation and get your own nuclear reactor to provide your heating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLOWPOKE_reactor

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Nuclear power - baggydave - 09-06-2008 09:49 PM
RE: Nuclear power - Perryman - 10-06-2008, 08:19 PM
RE: Nuclear power - Ooperlooper - 10-06-2008, 09:24 PM

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