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Post by admin on Apr 27, 2012 15:45:44 GMT -5
An argument against nuclear power plants, as if Japan wasn't enough as it is. In Japan, it was a monstrous earthquake and tsunami that brought down the Fukushima nuclear plant. In California, it’s a tiny, jellyfish-like sea creature called salp that’s causing problems at the Diablo Canyon atomic plant. An invasion of salp has prompted Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to temporarily shut down a nuclear reactor at Diablo Canyon, in Avila Beach, San Luisa Obispo County, on the central California coast. A giant swarm of the transluscent barrel-shaped organisms this week clogged intake screens that are used to keep marine life out of the seawater that is used as a coolant for the nuclear plant. usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/27/11432974-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-in-california-knocked-offline-by-jellyfish-like-creatures-called-salp?lite
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Post by Frying Squirrel on Apr 27, 2012 17:12:14 GMT -5
OSHI!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Salp!
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Post by bigwillybear on Apr 27, 2012 17:23:55 GMT -5
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Post by admin on Apr 27, 2012 19:50:56 GMT -5
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Apr 27, 2012 19:57:08 GMT -5
when they restart the reactors it will create lots of mechanical stresses that kinda "shockwave" through the "pipes" and stuff
this is not very good as radioactive neutrons cause neutron embrittlement of metals, leading to potential mechanical "failure"
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Apr 27, 2012 19:57:54 GMT -5
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