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what's the situation with the north and nuclear plant in virginia
world at that moment i heard that matteo virginia with the epicenter at bata
aloha at the home town of
north and a nuclear power plant
the current situation is that uh... the electrical greeted power which have been
lost yesterday afternoon i've been restored that happened early in the
evening yesterday
so uh... they had to fire up the emerge into diesel generators for some hours
there and guess what one of them fail
they have for onsite to treat reactor
and one of them did not work and sela there you go again what that uh... held
twenty five percent failure rate on a merchant fee diesel generators and if
the second one ad sales for the same reactor
or we would be looking at
they would have to have scrambled quickly probably to transfer the power
from one of the other ones on site to the reactor now in the dark you know
they that they don't have a lot of time to mess around with a reactor core that
goes from a hundred percent power
and this crammed and then you lose all power big probably do have some battery
back up so they may have had sometime
margin error but you don't want to screw around we thought that uh... took him a
day to unit one especially which melted down within five hours of the earthquake
in japan why can't a nuclear reactor use the power that is generating from its
own steam turbines to powered sampling system
a number in the country do you have such systems uh...
beam operated uh...
emergency backup power coming right off the course of the course on heat as
uh... providing emergency backup to the court self
but not all of them and that in fact the vast majority don't have that catalyst
the political uh... for political group
uh... the primary uh... sort of electricity for all
baking co inc system and the poor for high-level radioactive waste storage is
the electrical grids for you is that like to get a north and yesterday
you're thrown onto the emergency do you go back up to tap a remarkable rehta
failure in this country
and if you will grow tall you got left is four to eight hours of battery power
most plants in this country only have four hours for battery back up that half
the time of okajima date she had in place
and n
institutions that there really is a while
and and it's not just an earthquake that could take down the electoral great on
the work we're having now that yet have a serious five percent more moisture in
it than it did thirty years ago
uh... as there is a little more you were having
violent violent and you know what used to be a little twisters across the mid
western l mile wide tornadoes
uh... they have to be taking apart
exactly and that we speaker can irene as heading toward god east coast of the
united state
they're staying anywhere between florida and uh... and new england could be at
risk
and if you uh... duluth the primary electrical grade due to a hurricane your
again and uh... in a crisis uh... nuclear power plant we have dozens of
reactors on the on the east coast of the u_s_
apparently the good news is
there was no major damage done to this nuclear power plant other than that
they've lost
better their their mercy cool you had to go to the backups where they had a
twenty five percent failure rate
dumped the bad news is
it is that the birth quake sensors that they
don't exist do i have that right
back in the nineteen ninety-eight diverting attack
psychological system was removed from the north and a plant because of budget
cuts uh... so unsuccessful
uh... probably state of virginia budget cut father is an overlap of regulation
between state governments and federal governments on nuclear power plants are
in this case
state of virginia removed the uh... that moscow monitor and custom
now would that have been of any value to them or was that just one more samples
point for if an earthquake apertures data for the university of virginia real
where the state
seismological
organization to determine its intensity well i think that that's an important
role for you know for state government to play they needed to know instantly
how bad the earthquake was in terms of
where to look for damage especially at the plant
well one aspect of this first reported at the huffington post is there should
be no uh... lake anna the cooling water supply for the north and a nuclear power
plant that is considered at high risk of failure
this is a adi minus strayed from the american society of civil engineers
antha dominion nuclear has reported they've inspected the damage to the
earthquake they found no damage we're still concerned especially with a
hurricane perhaps on its way that we had threats to the dam though is that damn
goes then the water level
the nuclear power plants require massive amounts of induces a gazillion so
gallons of water to cool
themselves
which is why there was built their water
and if
dam breaks does that mean that the water level in the lake drops to the point
where the nuclear power plant can be second water out of it or is it down
river from the nuclear plant and we end up with the nebraska kind of situation
with a plan itself has been swamped as the case in history river and the
always the was the plant there port-au-prince's *** katherine thank
you
the former uh... at at lake anna the north anna nuclear power plant projects
cooling water supply for the secondary sarika dot of the weight control the
daniel inouye
you could lose that water supply and demand keep fiat the water in the
primary circuit
but that primary circuit of water need to off load that he can do a secondary
circuit which may not exist if you lose that damn you'd have no ultimately think
to transfer the heat into amoco or would oversee perhaps too dangerous to recon
catastrophic level
how did we ever come up with his stupid idea building these plants like this
poa got back on record for me in nineteen forty two splitting adams to
make bombs spot on the
under eisenhower they decided they needed a smiley face facade a nuclear
arms race and so they came up with an implication so-called self pessimism
subject headings camps you can read all about over beyond nuclear dot org and
uh...
let's all hope and pray that this dam doesn't go and this is an earthquake and
that they figure out away to uh... makes these emergency backup diesel generators
this nicefun more effective thank you kevin