The control rod thing is an insane oversight. Pull all the control rods out, reactor powers up. Slam them in, and the first thing to enter the reactor is graphite. Which INCREASES reactivity.
Nucular is techno
Brody Ramirez
Nathaniel Jones
Yeah idk about that.
He allowed the test to continue at 200 MWe even though the procedure stated 700MWe-800MWe.
He threatened the engineers with firing if they didn't continue with the test.
He pretty much single handedly allowed the reactor to be primed for a critical failing.
The only thing you can't fault him for is not knowing the control rods would act a an ignition switch.
Oliver Robinson
Thanks anons, I finally understand now. One thing though—oxygen was the final ingredient that led to the explosion, right? And it was the lid coming off that let the oxygen in. Sooo...if they had a much much heavier lid, would it have sustained for a while?
Joshua Wright
Because they were a 1st gen light water reactor. China is the only country building fully failsafe pebble bed/molten salt reactors.
Cameron Lee
If it had a proper containment building it wouldn't have mattered
Jason Ortiz
did the Fukushima reactor also not have a containment building? Or any of the other famous nuclear incidents?
Robert Young
ok so apparently fukuchinka did have a containment building, but I havent gotten into what actually caused the accident. I think I remember reading that the barriers they made were not high enough, so the massive waves meant water got in
Chase Smith
Fukushima would have never fucking happened in the first place had Tepco done their fucking jobs with the sea wall and not put the goddamn backup generators in the basement where they could flood.
When the quake hit, the reactors SCRAMed as designed and the diesel generators kicked in. Then the resultant tsunami hit and promptly drowned the generators. With external power offline due to the quake and subsequent tsunami fucking up everything and the backups drowned, the coolant pumps stopped and the cores started overheating. Couple days into the accident as the cores are in meltdown, the temperatures were high enough that the super-hot Zirconium cladding of the fuel had begun catalyzing the breakdown of the coolant water still in and around the core the core, resulting in hydrogen formation which collected in the containment buildings. Once the concentration got high enough, all it took was a suitable ignition source to detonate the hydrogen, which in turn cracked the containment buildings open.
It didn't help that fucking Tepco was being incompetent the entire time.
Jace Smith
Waves got in and took out power for the pumps. After that all the reactors for so hot they started to melt. Hydrogen gas escaped and filled the containment building blowing it up.
Mason Martin
Just because he thought there was a working failsafe doesn't mean he wasn't in the wrong. Failsafes aren't built for the purpose of allowing retards to "safely" push things to the edge of disaster.