I appreciate the contribution and insight of the esteemed Slashdotter "BeaverCleaver", but typically there's an article link that comes along with a summary,
Total time: 13:01. The key bit is at 4:49: "The waves went over the sea wall flooding the lower parts of buildings, and disabled the emergency diesel generators."
Had those generators and fuel tanks been higher up in the structure, things probably would have been fine, but with the reactors in control-rod shutdown and needing
Worth noting: Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant wasn’t offline because it was unsafe to operate, but because Japan rewrote its nuclear rulebook after Fukushima. The post-2011 requirements are much stricter (earthquakes, tsunamis, backup power, security), and it’s taken years to get approvals. Reactor 6 got through first since it’s newer and already had upgrades.
The restart push is mostly about energy reality: Japan imports most of its fuel, LNG got expensive, and cutting emissions wit
A couple of things, and caveat I spent a brief time working in the nuclear industry in a consulting capacity, and I was in a hotel on a business trip having a drink with the VP of Bus Dev of Westinghouse Nuclear watching the news reports of Fukushima as it literally happened right then.
First, in the Japanese cultural psyche nuclear power is a very prominent thing. Japan has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world to have been hit with nuclear weapons in anger, and the cultural sho
I appreciate the contribution and insight of the esteemed Slashdotter "BeaverCleaver", but typically there's an article link that comes along with a summary,
https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... [bbc.com]
For those who need a refresher as to how the failure of the Fukushima reactors, see this video:
Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi (from 2012)
https://youtu.be/YBNFvZ6Vr2U [youtu.be]
Total time: 13:01. The key bit is at 4:49: "The waves went over the sea wall flooding the lower parts of buildings, and disabled the emergency diesel generators."
Had those generators and fuel tanks been higher up in the structure, things probably would have been fine, but with the reactors in control-rod shutdown and needing
Worth noting: Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant wasn’t offline because it was unsafe to operate, but because Japan rewrote its nuclear rulebook after Fukushima. The post-2011 requirements are much stricter (earthquakes, tsunamis, backup power, security), and it’s taken years to get approvals. Reactor 6 got through first since it’s newer and already had upgrades.
The restart push is mostly about energy reality: Japan imports most of its fuel, LNG got expensive, and cutting emissions wit
First, in the Japanese cultural psyche nuclear power is a very prominent thing. Japan has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world to have been hit with nuclear weapons in anger, and the cultural sho