Massive Quake Hits NE Japan

[Docfeelgood]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/03/16/pkg.nhk.emotions.searches.cnn?hpt=C2

This will make your heart break.

Not sure it would bother Dashi. I think he has no heart. IMHO

[The Mad Monk]

What the **** is wrong with you?

[Docfeelgood]

What the **** is wrong with you?

Doc shames this thread. Japanese people would spit on him.

Well, after a post like this, Tell me why would I think differently?

[germanos]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12725646

new footage on the moment tsunami struck -

Already posted 4 days ago. But worth while a second view.

[Dr Strangelove]

Why did they put a nuclear plant right on the coast? Surely they weren't dumping spent steam water in the ocean?

[Berzerker]

great cooling reservoir... I think

I heard they just buried Chernobyl with sand and concrete, some talking head said they should do it here if they cant get water pumping

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Why did they put a nuclear plant right on the coast? Surely they weren't dumping spent steam water in the ocean?

Every nuke is near a major body of water be it natural or man made.

[Thoth]

Why did they put a nuclear plant right on the coast? Surely they weren't dumping spent steam water in the ocean?

Dumping waste heat via heat exchangers is not the same thing as dumping radioactive steam into the ocean.

[Berzerker]

I dont remember much water out at Palos Verde in AZ, I was there in the early 80s when they were building it. I think they had to build a reservoir and probably pump water up from the table below

[Asher]

Plus the coastal views are pretty.

[Dr Strangelove]

I thought the whole point of the giant cooling towers used at every US plant was to minimize "heat pollution". Nuclear reactors are steam technology, which is inherently very inefficient. Most of the energy produced by the reactor is waste, only a small fraction gets converted into electricity. If you use the ocean as a reservoir for waste heat you're going to have a sizeable zone where the usual native ocean lifeforms can't survive. That's why the US uses cooling towers waste heat is transferred to the air, then the hot air is diluted with cooler air before exiting the top of the tower.

[KrazyHorse]

"Nuclear reactors are steam technology, which is inherently very inefficient."

Por que?

[Cort Haus]

Newcomen

[Docfeelgood]

I thought the whole point of the giant cooling towers used at every US plant was to minimize "heat pollution". Nuclear reactors are steam technology, which is inherently very inefficient. Most of the energy produced by the reactor is waste, only a small fraction gets converted into electricity. If you use the ocean as a reservoir for waste heat you're going to have a sizeable zone where the usual native ocean lifeforms can't survive. That's why the US uses cooling towers waste heat is transferred to the air, then the hot air is diluted with cooler air before exiting the top of the tower.

True

[germanos]

Every nuke is near a major body of water be it natural or man made.

Isn't the same true for any powerplant?