[ RadSafe ] Yucca Mountain

[Steven Dapra]

July 3

         Yeah, there's a lot of floods and forest fires around power reactors.

Steven Dapra


At 03:33 PM 7/3/08 -0700, James Salsman wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Thank you for your question:
>
> > Again, what connection do you bring between
> > at-reactor spent fuel storage pools and weather?
>
>Rapid loss of load caused by flooding or forest fire,
>leading to cooling needs beyond the scope of the
>facility will have people in large vehicles scrambling
>around everywhere and that can not be good for
>containment.
>
>What is the current rate of U238 seepage from the
>storage facilities?
>
>James Salsman