I've been studying Nuclear disaster for awhile because of it being so grimly fascinating but I've gotten to the point of being more knowledgable
of nuclear catastrophe than the average headline skimmer to say the least, over the last few days I learned about the NRC, how things went down as they tried to stabilize things at fukushima and that the nuclear industry was never the same after Fukushima, that the NRC ordered extensive safety upgrades that have been implemented all over the world. We now have two FLEX facilities as a nation that are distant from any reactor and house everything it would take to bring a Reactor back online get its pumps working and water flowing, generators, as well as all the safety equipment and personal protective gear, geigercounters, everything because what Fukushima taught us was an edge case and act of Nature could knock the grid as well as station power offline and the engineers had to plan for even that, so what their answer was, in essence was to build a cooling system that only relied on Gravity that would cool the reactor for 72 hours while the FLEX facilities brought in the generators required to get things back up and running until outside power could be restored and it was no longer necessary.
In other words the united states is prepared already for a Fukushima style disaster and to prevent a Nuclear Catastrophe even in the event of a Extreme act of god as many refer to natural disasters.
I'm preparing to draft a letter to the NRC myself as a concerned Citizen advocating we build even more of those backup facilities. 2 is a little thin for my comfort.
but I've really learned a lot, they even have a little collection tray below the reactor that the corium would fall into and then it would spread the corium and circulate cold water around it, even though in actual practice a meltdown at vogtle has pretty much no chance of happening since they've got about at least 72 hours to respond to an on station blackout or OBO event as their cooling systems automatically kick in if the reactor gets too hot and only relies on gravity.
Oh and the venting system has been hardened extensively so they can vent to let Hydrogen out even in that extreme set of circumstances.
none of this is reported on your Fucking 5 oclock news either, It's buried in NRC reports which is the regulatory watchdog of the united states nuclear industry.
Also I learned on top of that in the event that a nuclear engineer is given an unsafe order by his bosses at the company since it exist to make money which may at times conflict with safety that he can safely blow the Whistle to the NRC who will then investigate the claims without giving up their sources in totally unannounced visits to the power plant, meaning if a Nuclear engineer were given an unsafe order in the united states and disobeyed it, should they get fired for insubordination and retaliated against for disregarding and unsafe order could then sue and subpeona the NRC and sue for wrongful termination and when you're paid basically 120k a year you can afford a lawyer in most jurisdictions.
in the past wihstle blowers have gone to the NRC and it ended up on the 5oclock news, which lead to massive reforms at nuclear power plants and again upgrades for safety purposes.
what has been exploding for the last 40 years of nuclear history are all Gen 2 reactors. Not a Single Gen 3 one has gone up, and All the gen 2s have been hardened as a result of Fukushima and Chernobyl.
Basically this is an industry that learns from it's mistakes, but you won't hear about that on the news. You can ask chatgpt or read the NRC reports.
In other words the united states is prepared already for a Fukushima style disaster and to prevent a Nuclear Catastrophe even in the event of a Extreme act of god as many refer to natural disasters.
I'm preparing to draft a letter to the NRC myself as a concerned Citizen advocating we build even more of those backup facilities. 2 is a little thin for my comfort.
but I've really learned a lot, they even have a little collection tray below the reactor that the corium would fall into and then it would spread the corium and circulate cold water around it, even though in actual practice a meltdown at vogtle has pretty much no chance of happening since they've got about at least 72 hours to respond to an on station blackout or OBO event as their cooling systems automatically kick in if the reactor gets too hot and only relies on gravity.
Oh and the venting system has been hardened extensively so they can vent to let Hydrogen out even in that extreme set of circumstances.
none of this is reported on your Fucking 5 oclock news either, It's buried in NRC reports which is the regulatory watchdog of the united states nuclear industry.
Also I learned on top of that in the event that a nuclear engineer is given an unsafe order by his bosses at the company since it exist to make money which may at times conflict with safety that he can safely blow the Whistle to the NRC who will then investigate the claims without giving up their sources in totally unannounced visits to the power plant, meaning if a Nuclear engineer were given an unsafe order in the united states and disobeyed it, should they get fired for insubordination and retaliated against for disregarding and unsafe order could then sue and subpeona the NRC and sue for wrongful termination and when you're paid basically 120k a year you can afford a lawyer in most jurisdictions.
in the past wihstle blowers have gone to the NRC and it ended up on the 5oclock news, which lead to massive reforms at nuclear power plants and again upgrades for safety purposes.
what has been exploding for the last 40 years of nuclear history are all Gen 2 reactors. Not a Single Gen 3 one has gone up, and All the gen 2s have been hardened as a result of Fukushima and Chernobyl.
Basically this is an industry that learns from it's mistakes, but you won't hear about that on the news. You can ask chatgpt or read the NRC reports.
