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Tag Archives: meltdown
Fukushima: Cooling pools successfully doused
The Nuclear Energy Institute reports: UPDATE AS OF 10:00 A.M. EDT, SUNDAY, MARCH 20: A two-part operation to spray water into the used fuel pool at Fukushima Daiichi reactor 4 ended just before 7 A.M. EDT. Japan’s defense ministry announced … Continue reading
Finally, mention of robots to Fukushima
Japan Races to Restart Reactors’ Cooling System At the request of the Japanese military, a Massachusetts company, iRobot, said it put four robots on a plane for Japan on Friday. Colin Angle, the chief executive, said it had sent two … Continue reading
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Fukushima and Teleoperated Robots (Video)
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Nuclear Expert: “Get a camera in there!”
Frank von Hippel, a genuine nuclear expert, talks with Rachel Maddow: He mentions that the problems are that ‘too much’ of the roof is intact to get hoses in, and they can’t see where to shoot the water until they … Continue reading
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Radiation hardening for telebots
I was asked whether teleoperated robots could function in a high-radiation environment. I found a link here, which indicates that microelectronics can survive thousands of rads before degradation. That would be many times a lethal dose for humans. The electronics … Continue reading
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Fukushima: constructing containment buildings out of shipping containers
Containments for the damaged reactor buildings can be rapidly constructed out of intermodal shipping containers. Shown here are forty-foot units. Approximately 1500 are used to build the walls. At $5000 per unit, the walls can be constructed for $7,500,000 in … Continue reading
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How to provide pump power at Fukushima
Normally, I wouldn’t think myself qualified to offer insight on how to cool a reactor plant in meltdown, but then I read this in the “New York Times: Christopher D. Wilson, a reactor operator and later a manager at Exelon’s … Continue reading
Neighborhood Power Plants: An Alternative to Catastrophe and Collapse
Today was a gloomy day here in the Seattle region. The sky was overcast and it was nonstop raining. I happened to be driving through downtown around noontime when I saw a sign which gave the solar flux: .23 kw. … Continue reading
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Can robots stop a meltdown?
Forbes Magazine, “Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe Escalates in Japan – ‘Worse than Chernobyl’”: “The electrical grid is down. The emergency diesel generators have been damaged. The multi-reactor Fukushima atomic power plant is now relying on battery power, which will only … Continue reading
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