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' The Asia Times has been almost silent about the Fukushima Disaster. Now they are writing about it. Interesting. What happened at Fukushima?Throughout the months of lies and misinformation, one story has stuck: The earthquake knocked out the plant's electric power, halting cooling to its six reactors. The tsunami - a unique, one-off event - then washed out the plant's back-up generators, shutting down all cooling and starting the chain of events that would cause the world's first triple meltdown. That line has now become gospel at TEPCO....
But what if recirculation pipes and cooling pipes burst, snapped, leaked, and broke completely after the earthquake - before the tidal wave reached the facilities and before the electricity went out? This would surprise few people familiar with the nearly 40-year-old reactor one, the grandfather of the nuclear reactors still operating in Japan. Yes, virtually identical in design to so many which are presently in operation in the USA.
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Neuman: Yes, virtually identical in design to so many which are presently in operation in the USA."
Wasn't aware you were so knowledgable in US power reactor design, lad. Care to elucidate for us bumpkins just what the specific design/installation feature simularities, hence "vulnerabilities" are and in what U.S. plants they exist ?
By all means feel free to include the various design changes/upgrades by "mark/mod" in those plants and which firms designed them and how they address such "vulnerabilites". >Mech
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Back when they were building nuclear reactors they were also putting men on the moon. We seem to have regressed slightly from the massive engineering feats we were once capable of. Both business and government no longer seem willing or able to occupy the tens of thousands of people it takes to make these things happen. Did we turn a corner somewhere? Achieve a pinnacle and begin our descent? Or is the next Hoover Dam just around the corner?
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' Greger, I can't believe that you are so retrograde as to think that the Hoover Dam was a Good Thing ! · · ·  Think of the destroyed wetlands at the top of the Gulf of California ! Think of all that natural wonder wrecked so that the vileness of Las Vegas might exist---and Los Angeles grow into a Frankenstein monster ! · · · 
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Greger,
We have the technology, the materials and the skills to build safer, more efficient muclear reactors with a smaller "footprint", (environmentally and physically) than extant operating technology. We've already done the pilot plant proofs !
Ask yourself - and others - 'why do the "watermelons" continue to object' to nuclear power - while at the same time protesting coal technology ? Or why do they "object" to the development of a host of other "clean energy" developments ? No one ever heard of the "perils of fracting", until the Marcellus Shale formation, ( adjacent to major metro areas) proved fecund.
IOW, all I've seen is politically motivated "pogroms" with the purpose of reducing the most powerfu economic engine ever seen to tatters. >Mech
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"Retrograde" Neuman ? !! Your dearth of historical/scientific knowledge verges upon fantastic !
We, as a nation, were extremely fortunate Black Canyon Dam was built ! It provided power to essential war industries at a critical time. ( Not to mention providing critical mining/tunneling development/expertise. )
Of course we could dynamite it, ( and other downstream dams) returning southern CA to the "dark ages of its Mexican heritage". Just think of it. Tourists only able to view "Hollywood and Vine" by daylight ! Or only see the impressions of the stars in the same time frame ! No traffic lights. No police responses. No cold beer, domestic lighting, food, etc.
(Don't forget the CA's "energy resource controllers have effectively shut down in-state generation of electrical power. )
Yeah ! Go aheAd and blow them suckers up ! Mech
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BTW, Neuman, still waiting on your "treatise" on the vulnerabilities of Americam Power Reactors. May I pressume its a "work in progress" ? >Mech
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Thanks All. 
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time,but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.[A. Lincoln]
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Apprehensive about your daughter's new job?
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