Uranium One Inc SXRZF

RE: Modern plants are much safer than Japan's 40-y

[LouE]

the plant design has no bearing on what happened really.  Take ANY reactor in the world that uses enriched Uranium as fuel...aka a light water reactor or even a heavy water rx, that uses naturally occuring Uranium, and then take away the emergency power supply...........If you don't get power back within 12 hours for some, or 48 hours for others...and you get failed fuel.

It just doesn't matter.....take away the power, and you are in big, big trouble.  Some have great concrete containment structures sure...........BUT irradiated fuel bays are not inside containment.

take away cooling to the bays, and in 24 hours the fuel there is uncovered...then baked to melt temperatures...then offgassing iodide...then you have another japan crisis...anywhere.

The real question is....we must ensure under every single situation known to man...that power is allways available.

The real safety is in emergency preparedness, highly trained staff...that follow procedures.  Bad stuff happens when bad decisions are made on the fly during an accident.....equipment failures are all part of doing business.

Different staff could have prevented the japan crisis......they chose to wing it.  They had 24 hours to ask for the world to get them power.....or to cool the thing...before the rad hazzard existed....before the h2 explosions.  Asking after the h2 explosions was way too late.

whats next?  the pile melts to critical mass and goes critical all on its own?  Now that is the next worst thing that could happen.......dam enriched fuel stations!