Goodnight, sweet prince

3/15/2011 8:02:43 AM

do you mean in general or the ones trying to repair that broken reactor?

3/15/2011 8:04:33 AM

i think he means the ones that will no longer have jobs as a result of a terrified public that calls for a moratorium on all new facilities

3/15/2011 8:14:16 AM

3/15/2011 8:33:46 AM

Like that nuclear engineer understands plans for reinforced concrete.

3/15/2011 8:48:41 AM

honestly i thought this thread would go a little further

3/15/2011 4:11:05 PM

RIP

3/15/2011 4:24:48 PM

^^proof that youre a dumb dumb

3/15/2011 4:31:01 PM

man you cut me to the core...you're the boron to my neutron flux

3/15/2011 4:41:56 PM

not as good a comeback as "takes one to know one"

3/15/2011 4:45:00 PM

what is it with you people

SCRAM a man while he's subcritical, whydontcha

3/15/2011 4:48:06 PM

3/15/2011 4:51:04 PM

I CALL FOR A REACTOR IN EVERY MAJOR CITY.

It only makes sense to keep generation local.

3/15/2011 4:51:07 PM

I'm thinking I'm liking operations more than nuclear engineering.

With the life extension (Carolina 1&2) I can easily work until retirement without any problems.

3/15/2011 5:06:15 PM

on the fossil side, i liked my time with ops a hell of a lot better than engineering work

3/15/2011 5:17:24 PM

3/15/2011 5:22:33 PM

What if a sinkhole swallows a nuclear reactor? Have they prepared against that scenerio?

3/15/2011 5:25:53 PM

"Homer, the power plant called. They said if you don't come in to work tomorrow, don't bother coming in on Monday."

-"WOOHOO! FOUR DAY WEEKEND!"

3/15/2011 5:27:43 PM

Quote :

"What if a sinkhole swallows a nuclear reactor? Have they prepared against that scenerio?"

Yea. You have to do a thorough subsurface investigation where the reactor/power plant is going. Also, you have to explore the area for the primary dam and secondary dam.

If you're in some place with karst topography or where sinkholes will likely open up, there is little chance of the thing being built.

[Edited on March 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM. Reason : -]

3/15/2011 5:30:38 PM

Paul Turinsky is the man.

3/15/2011 5:46:10 PM

Wrong again.

We're still...somewhere.

(I'm the bald guy with the shades sitting in the pooka driving the ship.)

3/15/2011 6:51:48 PM

I think getting paid by the hour vs. salary makes a big difference in the happiness.

More so when you are working 600-700 hours of overtime a year.

3/15/2011 7:08:25 PM

yep

3/15/2011 7:11:35 PM

^^ depends. lots of engineering companies in industrial engineering/construction pay overtime because they technically pay by the hour even though you are on "salary".

3/15/2011 7:17:17 PM

well after a 5 hour "carve out" and the overtime you just have to work just to get your job done they expect you not to report.

3/15/2011 7:29:59 PM

/shrug. Guess it depends who you work for. I just charge what I work. I'm salary but as a design engineer you are always assigned to a project and the hours just get charged to the client. So if I work 50 I charge 50 etc.

[Edited on March 15, 2011 at 7:38 PM. Reason : ]

3/15/2011 7:36:51 PM

I don't understand why an epic earthquake in Japan, can totally stall any nuclear plant proliferation plans. Besides a sucker punch asteroid hit; I can not think of a single other natural event that could cause a similar situation. Outside of CA, OR, and HI the rest of the country is located outside of any fault line.

Any other natural disaster any modern facility would be impervious to or could prepare for.

3/15/2011 8:23:35 PM

because the general public is generally retarded and they do not understand the difference like you do

3/15/2011 8:31:11 PM

Something as simple as one plant tripping on a hot summer day can cause a large section of the east coast (where most of the plants are) to lose power.

So we start with a loss of off site power. A big deal but is recoverable unless you had one division of your backup AC power for maintenance or an emergent failure. After running for a few hours a latent defect, or human error, shows up and you lose the next division of AC.

Depending on the severity of the event that caused the loss of backup power you might only have a few hours to as long as a few days before you can recover either division.

In the meantime you are left with just DC batteries. Since this happened in the summer time it early on night shift you have a bare bones staff. One mistake in the recovery, very easy to make, could drive the whole thing into the dirt.

I know this is a long sequence of events but it is one that could happen. Will it happen? Probably not but this is why all plants have been putting emergency procedures and other sources of backup power in place.

God help the people in Japan.

3/15/2011 8:39:24 PM

Watch Debra Morgan get baffled by one of our professors.

http://www.wral.com/business/video/9274840/



[Edited on March 15, 2011 at 9:09 PM. Reason : couldn't get it to embed ]

3/15/2011 9:00:55 PM

All the new scheduled gen III ABWR (and especially the ESBWR concept) incorporate partial to full-passive backup and cooling systems which would have lessened or completely prevented many of the issues that plagued the Fukushima plant....

but apparently the collective drastic advances in modern plant design are but a footnote to be ignored in the discussion of the future of nuclear power

people are just downright silly.

^ haha i was just about to post that

[Edited on March 15, 2011 at 11:16 PM. Reason : redredundancycy]

3/15/2011 11:16:09 PM