Chernobyl. Could it repeat?

[Ferretlover]

Hi all! Pardon my jumping in. I'd like to talk about the current state of the Ukrainian npps.

Thus I found out that other power plants in Ukraine have been in critical condition for several years. Also the number of accidents increased since 2007 which contemporizes with first attempts of US reactor fuel usage at npps of Soviet construction. The latest accident happened when South-Ukrainian NPP made another risky experiment mixing two types of fuel.

danger.in.ua/en/articles/nuclear_emerg.html

While Finns and Czechs refused further attempts of readjusting their npps those Ukrainians continue digging their own nuclear grave. Most troubling is that no one controls those experiments. It's understandable that Ukrainian authorities have been trying to escape dependence from Russian supplies of nuclear fuel. But they've been acting too ignorantly and risky. Also they expose to danger all their neighbours.

 

[Kane]

Indeed, Eastern Europe is in trouble. A disaster waiting to happen. We can only hope the winds are blowing east over Russia.

And if only the American liberals would embrace nuclear power, because most of the plants we still have running were built in the 70's and are still using 1970's technology.

Now that's a colossal disaster just waiting to happen, but the silly liberals won't hear of any modernization or new nukes.

Along with toilet paper, it makes a guy want to keep a number of radiation suits in his family's bug-out bags.

 

[waybomb]

Chernobyl was a certain type of graphite moderated reactor. The first reactors here in the states were similar, and have long been off-line.

No more were built after Chernobyl.

A number were decommissioned. And the rest were retrofitted with more advanced safety features.

The list of "emergencies" in the link is troubling, since most if not all are simply operational departures from a steady state. Nothing I read in there is what I would call an emergency. The pulling of rods is an operational procedure, not an emergency. A water leak is a leak, not an emergency. The author needs to decide if breakinga fingernail is an emergency or a release of isotopes is an emergency, and what level is that release an emergency.

Do you GTAW weld? Your Thoriated Tungsten is radioactive and the half life of Thorium is billions of years. Is striking an arc an emergency?

 

[road squawker]

...Thus I found out that other power plants in Ukraine have been in critical condition for several years....

of course they are "critical",....... if they weren't they could not sustain the reaction to generate power.

you don't seem to be very knowledgeable on this subject.