Published: February 22nd, 2012 at 11:09 am ET
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Title: U.S. worried about Fukushima meltdown early on: commission transcript
Source: Kyodo
Date: Feb 22, 2012
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission released Tuesday some 3,000 pages of transcripts [...]The documents showed that as early as March 16 [...] Jaczko projected “a worst scenario” that all three operating reactors at the crippled plant might be experiencing meltdowns.
“The reactors would likely eventually…breach primary containment and have some type of (radioactive) release,” he said during a conference call [...]
The prediction turned out to be accurate [...]
The transcripts also showed that Jaczko mentioned “potentially up to six spent-fuel pools in a degraded condition, possibly with spent fuel pool fires.” [...]
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Published: February 22nd, 2012 at 11:09 am ET
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Are the SFP the main reason, not to shut down all the nuclear reacors?
If there are no power generation , who is going to pay the continuous refreshing of the spent fuel?
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it wouldn't cost much to keep them cool, the more expensive thing would be backup systems, monitoring systems and security.
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are westinghouse AP1000 SFP different than BWR?
The reactor seems to be safeter than markI one's, but SFP ?
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I'm not a native speaker.
Maybye anyone can tell me the difference between
"degraded condition" and "broken"?
h.
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"Broken" means non-working and as such, is also in a degraded condition. "Degraded condition" is a relative term and can mean any stage from the moment past "new" to "broken". When it comes to contaminants in a fuel pool though, it either is or it isn't so the degraded condition means it's broken… but then he also says, "potentially", but keep in mind their definition of "know" varies at times too.
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In this case, degraded may mean "almost working".
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http://youtu.be/JqH8dE9GSes Arnie Gundersen speaks about the AP1000
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tnks moonshellblue
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Mainstream: Radiation from tsunami disaster detected off Japan's coast in Pacific; levels below harmful
By Brian Skoloff,Malcolm Ritter, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – 20 hours ago
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nuclear-radioactivity-tsunami-disaster-detected-off-japans-coast-195622001.html
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This story has been published almost verbatim in major news papers worldwide. Talk about centrally controlled propaganda. They don't mention that a US navy study done years ago showed fish can bio-accumulate radiation contamination 100,000 times.
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It seems, after Fukushima, like such a bad idea to keep large amounts of spent fuel AT a nuclear power plant. Why not move it somewhere else so that if an accident happens, the huge amounts of spent fuel won't add to the disaster?
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