[ RadSafe ] Video exploring: why-radiation-safe-and-why-all-nations-should-embrace-nuclear-energy

[Thompson, Dewey L]

Roy

Earthquakes can be a pointed reminder of natures power can't they?

Remember the physical plant at Fukushima survived the quake quite well. The problem was many support systems (such as fuel tanks for the diesels) were out in the open.

It comes down to design robustness, and having a regulator that asks the hard questions, (and has the authority and backbone to force issues when necessary),

Another point that us often overlooked is the business culture. What I mean is that when the business leaders "get too comfortable", they make "bad" decisions.  March 10, 2011.  Tepco was one of the best utility investments in the world. March 11, 2011, not so much. There were design issues at Fukushima that should not have happened.

The bottom line of what I'm trying to say is that I'm quite confident that a nuclear plant can be designed properly.  (There may be locations that nuclear plants should NOT be sited, however I'm of the mind that such decisions fall out of the siting analysis).

Dewey



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> On Aug 26, 2014, at 8:14 PM, "ROY HERREN" <royherren2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>    I live in Napa, California and I just lived through a magnitude 6.1 earthquake at 0320 this last Sunday morning, see Napa, Calif., earthquake: Last big jolt in area was in 2000.  I have a small inground swimming pool in the back yard.  The quake caused a miniature Tsunami that threw my floating chlorinator (a floating jug that holds chlorine tablets) 11 feet away up a small slope from the waters edge.  I think I lost over a foot of water out of my pool, and that the initial water level was at least six inches from the top of the pool.  Based on both what happened at Fukushima and at my house I've come to the inescapable  conclusion that Nuclear Power plants can't be safely built within a potential Tsunami zone, and that we humans are incapable of imagining how catastrophic any earthquake can be and just how far a Tsunami zone can truly extend.  Another problem is that nuclear power plants most probably shouldn't ever be built in earthquake
> country, but unfortunately we don't really know where earthquake country is until after an earthquake occurs.  If, a really big if, nuclear power plants plans and locations weren't based on some sort of a cost versus benefit analysis, but rather exclusively on safety I'd feel much more comfortable about the issue.  Unfortunately, in the real world plants are located close to waters edge to minimize the cost of piping runs and pumping needs for cooling water.  The closer the plants are to the water, the greater the risk from flooding and Tsunamis.  Personally, I think that nuclear power is a remarkable technology that we humans should harness for all of our good, but I seriously doubt that it is compatible with the demands of a "for profit" corporate minimize the cost - maximize the profit mentality.  I served in the US Navy as a Nuclear Power plant operator and I know that if cost isn't an issue that extremely rugged plants can be engineered.  No
> matter what though, we are limited by our human nature.  Accidents have happened and will continue to happen!  Nuclear power is far too valuable to humanity to walk away from it, but it's also horribly susceptible to safety problems.
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> On Saturday, August 23, 2014 12:34 PM, stewart farber <farber at farbermed.com> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> Hope all are well as we turn the page on Summer.
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> Interesting video:
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> http://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/469956/why-radiation-safe-and-why-all-nations-should-embrace-nuclear-energy?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29
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> Stewart Farber, MSPH
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