Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel
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#2> At the plant’s entrance, a sign warned: “Games like Pokemon GO are forbidden within the facility.”
Was this a thing people were doing? Going to a nuclear disaster site as part of a game?
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#3> At the plant’s entrance, a sign warned: “Games like Pokemon GO are forbidden within the facility.” Was this a thing people were doing? Going to a nuclear disaster site as part of a game?
Could also be workers at the site on their lunch breaks.
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#4Web link not bypassing paywall for me, anyone else? Or am I in some experimental cohort? :)
Re: Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel
#5> At the plant’s entrance, a sign warned: “Games like Pokemon GO are forbidden within the facility.” Was this a thing people were doing? Going to a nuclear disaster site as part of a game?
Probably nowhere near as dangerous but I think its interesting. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-the-shadow-of-cherno...
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#7Web link not bypassing paywall for me, anyone else? Or am I in some experimental cohort? :)
It worked for me. Anyway, here's an archived copy:
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#8Kind of surprising at this point that there’s not an area directly below the bottom of the reactor with a giant ceramic catch basin (or something similarly heat resistant) to catch these failures and cleared of pipes etc so when this happens cleanup workers know the location of the materials.
Re: Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel
#9Kind of surprising at this point that there’s not an area directly below the bottom of the reactor with a giant ceramic catch basin (or something similarly heat resistant) to catch these failures and cleared of pipes etc so when this happens cleanup workers know the location of the materials.
I think that is easier said than done, the temperatures are in the several thousands of degrees here.
Re: Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel
#10Kind of surprising at this point that there’s not an area directly below the bottom of the reactor with a giant ceramic catch basin (or something similarly heat resistant) to catch these failures and cleared of pipes etc so when this happens cleanup workers know the location of the materials.
That's part of some newer reactor designs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_catcher