Rules and Guidelines
Want to participate in the discussions? Please read our Community Rules and Guidelines. Need some help? Visit Support and Answers.

  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 10 replies
  • Subscribers 22 subscribers
  • Views 1571 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
You may also be interested in
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Possible Nuclear Leakage at Power Plant.

Zoomup

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10593867/Ukraine-warns-Chernobyl-radiation-risk-power-connection-severed.html

Is this comment true? "Let's be realistic here. Chernobyl ceased producing electricity completely in 2015 and has been in a process of total decommission since. The pond used to cool the reactors was disconnected and left to evaporate. Spent fuel is being stored in an area within the new sarcophagus. It is not an active plant, the cooling system is obsolete and all highly radioactive material is contained or in the process of being contained. Daily Mail, these scaremongering headlines may generate you plenty of ad revenue but you have a responsibility to your readers. What price do you put on the mental well being of your readers? For those who are scared by such click baiting articles... if you can't help but read them please also look at other sources and apply some critical thinking. The conduct of this paper is becoming truly diabolical."

Another report from another source.

www.theguardian.com/.../chernobyl-power-supply-cut-completely-after-russian-seizure-warns-ukaine

Z.

Parents

  • Radioactive material (including exposed components) will remain so for many thousands of years. For many years hence, many of those components will also be hot, due to the radioactivity. The sarcophagus thus needs active environmental control, and will do so for many years hence. Active environmental control means control systems and currently these use external power, and will do so for the foreseeable future. Take that power off, you lose your control. 

    Many people still do not seem to understand that, when you build fission power plants, you are committing yourself to significant active control of that plant and of what remains of its components for hundreds to thousands of years. I for one am not convinced that we humans are wise enough or responsible enough to take on such task (such a series of tasks, geographically widely distributed). Recent events have done nothing to persuade me otherwise. 

Reply

  • Radioactive material (including exposed components) will remain so for many thousands of years. For many years hence, many of those components will also be hot, due to the radioactivity. The sarcophagus thus needs active environmental control, and will do so for many years hence. Active environmental control means control systems and currently these use external power, and will do so for the foreseeable future. Take that power off, you lose your control. 

    Many people still do not seem to understand that, when you build fission power plants, you are committing yourself to significant active control of that plant and of what remains of its components for hundreds to thousands of years. I for one am not convinced that we humans are wise enough or responsible enough to take on such task (such a series of tasks, geographically widely distributed). Recent events have done nothing to persuade me otherwise. 

Children

Community Rules & Guidelines