Anthony Rogers is thinking out loud about some incidents that took place over the weekend.
Technorati tags: Nuclear Power, Electricity, Energy, Coal
Technorati tags: Nuclear Power, Electricity, Energy, Coal
You know, it’s kind of sad that no one is willing to invest in nuclear energy anymore. Wait, what? NuScale Power celebrated the news of its company-saving $30 million investment from Fluor Corp. Thursday morning with a press conference in Washington, D.C. Fluor is a design, engineering and construction company involved with some 20 plants in the 70s and 80s, but it has not held interest in a nuclear energy company until now. Fluor, which has deep roots in the nuclear industry, is betting big on small-scale nuclear energy with its NuScale investment. "It's become a serious contender in the last decade or so," John Hopkins, [Fluor’s group president in charge of new ventures], said. And that brings us to NuScale, which had run into some dark days – maybe not as dark as, say, Solyndra, but dire enough : Earlier this year, the Securities Exchange Commission filed an action against NuScale's lead investor, The Michael Kenwood Group. The firm "misap...
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This blog about the LaSalle "site area emergency" being such a success story... whadaya expect?
Let me just add this bit to the story---
Local police did not know the nuke was at its 2nd highest level of emergency classification as the local first responders, until about 4 hrs later around the time the plant was exiting the emergency.
Bunch of burned out blubs but they did not appreciate that. Not a good exercise, folks.
More over since this wasnt a drill good neighbors dont treat each other that way.
Given the benefit of the doubt that this was a case of "operator optimism" or some other communication breakdown its more of a critique of the Katrinaesque emergency planning (ala early notification process) that still exists for nuclear power plants.
Then again, good neighbors dont wait to get found out that they've been crapping in the water for at least 10 years.
Paul, NIRS
For what its worth, I filed mine... did you?
February 22, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - "A government defense plan for nuclear power plants assumes an attack would come from less than half the number of Sept. 11 hijackers and they wouldn't be armed with rocket-propelled grenades or other weapons often used by terrorists overseas."
As I see there are new rules here, too [no posting full articles]you can see the whole pitiful story in the The Guardian UK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5639818,00.html
Pretty lame, folks, are you really so financially marginal as to need to hold down the security bar this low... or just plain stingy?
We're getting blasted from Mogadishu to Baghdad with RPGs and you guys think the nukes are immune?
nighty, night,
Paul, NIRS
At LaSalle an indicator light showed that three of the control rods' position could not be confirmed. Call the police, local authorities, oh my gosh, a reactor tripped, run for the hills.
Sound the alarms, lets cause panic over three indicator lights that didn't work correctly for 4 minutes. Four minutes after the trip, all control rods were shown to have been inserted.
Seems like something to get all worked up to me.
Furthermore, you're assuming that the more secret your security provisions are, the safer your plants will be. If those security plans depend entirely on their secrecy, then they run the risk of being exploited by somebody who gains inside knowledge about them.
Look, I'm not suggesting your security detail posts its guard changeover schedules on the internet, but some careful thought about what could be shown to the public to reassure them on this matter might be advantageous.
Thoughtful comments however dismissive.
Doesnt matter... I am just reading to you aloud the writing on the wall since there is such a deliberate effort to ignore or try to a curtain over it.
Mr. Primervara,
Your comment about "loose lips sinks ships" is first of all anti-democratic, demonstrating that nuclear power is in of itself not an appropriate power system for an open society. Second of all, your incenuations ignore or are ignorant that the National Academy of Sciences, the scientific validation arm of Congress, is one of those that has pointed out the vulnerabilities of the spent fuel storage system. Third, the RPG or TOW or whatever of concern comes as an attacked directed against target sets other than the containment dome, thus your statement reflects the same obfuscations.
According to the DBT and the AP, your security forces are not adequately guarded, equipped or trained to take on the equivalent of the September 11 attacks. Did you read that, sir?
No BS please,
Paul, NIRS
"A subtle traitor needs no sophister."
Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part II, Act 5 Scene I Line 195
Gunter, if possible, can we just discuss the actual content this post is about? Namely, how many people died at LaSalle? Almost doesn't count. Could have doesn't count, should have doesn't count. Facts are facts. No one died. No one even came close. The body count this year is about typical for any year, coal mine deaths in the several hundred world wide, nuclear deaths, 0 again. Coal, although getting cleaner, ravages the environment through mining and exhaust. Nuclear MIGHT if we don't figure some way to rocket the waste into space. ( Paul P., any clue why this has never been an option? You'd think Cassini would have softened that view some. ). And, to top it off, we wouldn't be hogtied to 3rd World countries just to keep our economy going.
Now, what's that downside of nuclear energy again? And, remember, coulda's, shoulda's, mights, and would have's don't mean a thing to anyone other than the Sheen family.
I actually a did a little more in-depth "thinking out loud" on the issue a while back. Basically, the conclusion I've come to is some people are still tethered to the logic of homo sapien and anything beyond cave man logic scares them. So, they must kill it.