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"NC State is home to nuclear reactor In the middle of campus of North Carolina State University lies a working 1-megawatt nuclear reactor. Sixty years ago, N.C. State was the nation’s first academic institution to build a nuclear reactor. The current model sitting at the university’s Burlington Engineering Laboratories is 40 years old."

http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/9273774/

OMG DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THIS? ARE WE IN DANGER???

3/16/2011 11:13:34 PM

You mean in the time I was there I could have been getting who knows how much radiation!

Oh well, let me go back to laying out on the beach and I'll get over it.

3/16/2011 11:14:55 PM

if that reactor had a meltdown it would probably give radiation poisoning to everyone within 5 feet.

3/16/2011 11:18:17 PM

^OMG EVACUATE THE ROOM!!!!!!!!

3/16/2011 11:21:25 PM

but what about the haz waste?

3/16/2011 11:21:28 PM

3/16/2011 11:28:55 PM

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"Hawari said N.C. State's reactor is not designed to meltdown if water level drops in the core. "

LOL

Surely the reactor in Japan was DESIGNED TO MELTDOWN

3/16/2011 11:29:37 PM

Yes, we should all worry about the evil Wolfpack reactor, and not the Sharon Harris reactor that's built on a fault line

3/16/2011 11:36:25 PM

^ Why do you think our NE's can't land jobs? They've never seen a GOOD design!

3/16/2011 11:37:35 PM

Oh zing! You guys should probably school all of the nuclear engineers with your competence.

3/16/2011 11:41:10 PM

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"Yes, we should all worry about the evil Wolfpack reactor, and not the Sharon Harris reactor that's built on a fault line"

My boss worked on the subsurface report for the Sharon Harris reactor. We got it in our office somewhere. You don't need to be worried at all.

3/16/2011 11:56:05 PM

99/100 anti-nuke activists don't know this, it's freakin' hilarious

[Edited on March 16, 2011 at 11:57 PM. Reason : s]

3/16/2011 11:56:44 PM

wasn't the original plan of the Sharron Harris plant to house 4 reactors?

3/16/2011 11:58:27 PM

something like that...

3/17/2011 12:03:53 AM

i'd be more worried about the two earthquakes this week in western NC

3/17/2011 12:10:22 AM

^ how strong were they?

3/17/2011 1:32:04 PM

aha i remember my nuke teacher saying something like if the worst happened to the reactor the radiation probably still wouldn't make it across the street

3/17/2011 1:35:35 PM

Lets replace all nuclear reactors with coal plants

3/17/2011 1:36:44 PM

screw coal...

lets all go back to burning wood for heat and using oil lamps for light

3/17/2011 1:38:46 PM

glad wral is keeping us informed with the latest happenings in our state.

3/17/2011 1:39:41 PM

I personally think we should revert to rendering whale fat for lamp oil and slaughtering seals for their pelts to keep warm.

3/17/2011 1:43:59 PM

I remember they evacuated Daniels hall once because they found a dead bird outside Burlington. It was during a Christmas break one year.

I think they concluded that the bird died because it got into some antifreeze.

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"glad wral is keeping us informed with the latest happenings in our state."

Pretty sure they were just trying to find a way to make State look bad again. Look at the disaster in Japan. Now think NC State.

[Edited on March 17, 2011 at 1:46 PM. Reason : -]

3/17/2011 1:45:23 PM

from the Comments:

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"This may surprise some people but it's old news to anybody that was a student there. My enginering building was right across the street from it. There are these funky brick columns that are on the four corners of the nuclear engineering building, and supposedly if there was a radiation leak you would know because these brick columns would collapse. In other words, if you see them fall, don't ask questions, just run like he||. Don't know how much truth there was in that but it was the campus rumor at the time."

ahahahahahahahahahahaha

3/17/2011 1:59:24 PM

MAGIC COLUMNS

3/17/2011 2:13:23 PM

^ ahahahahaha it would be even better if a professor said that to some freshmen.

3/17/2011 2:15:22 PM

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"lets all go back to burning wood for heat and using oil lamps for light"

Whale oil is 100% renewable

3/17/2011 2:20:41 PM

fuck this whale oil stuff... we should just devolve into primates with more body hair and smaller brains so we won't lose as much heat.

3/17/2011 2:24:26 PM

My AP chem class took a field trip to see the reactor at NCSU -- we had a nice tour and Q&A session. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

3/17/2011 2:44:38 PM

There was a Technician article about the waste from the campus reactor a while back. IIRC, it's housed in a cinder block shed-like building at or near the Campus Police building. They said it was in a drum and, short of climbing into the drum with it, it was pretty harmless. I'm sure someone involved in the nuke program could give some more specific and factual details than the Technician could.

3/17/2011 3:39:39 PM

wral annual stories itt

3/17/2011 4:34:26 PM

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"My AP chem class (except for the Chinese, Korean and Arab students) took a field trip to see the reactor at NCSU -- we had a nice tour and Q&A session. I thoroughly enjoyed it."

3/17/2011 6:48:49 PM

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"Don't know how much truth there was in that but it was the campus rumor at the time."

just to be safe though, if you see those things collapse, better get outta town

3/17/2011 6:56:00 PM

http://www.ncsu.edu/ehs/radsafety.htm

That's where the info should be, but the link to Radioactive Waste Disposal doesn't work.

3/17/2011 7:04:37 PM

^^^^^ As a former NRC licensed operator of the campus PULSTAR reactor, I can personally assure you that it generates no waste. The same fuel assemblies have been in the core since the day it first went critical.

[Edited on March 17, 2011 at 7:05 PM. Reason : ]

3/17/2011 7:05:21 PM

i heard it was only powerful enough to power a microwave oven

3/17/2011 7:05:50 PM

It cannot power anything. It produces a small amount of heat. There is no generator anywhere in the system. There is no steam.

3/17/2011 7:06:37 PM

Get on this qfred.

TWW now powered by nuclear energy!

3/17/2011 7:08:43 PM

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"i heard it was only powerful enough to power a microwave oven"

ok so im a complete dork for laughing because i thought the term "nuking" in reference to microwaving something

3/17/2011 8:10:06 PM

i did a nuclear engineering workshop over the summer and we toured the nuclear reactor on campus, a waste disposal building on campus, and then went to harris reactor the next day.

it was really cool. The guy who was in charge of the students running the nuclear reactor seemed like he would be cool to work with. He was always joking with them and being sarcastic. THere is a diagram on the wall in there and i commented it looked like the millennium falcon...and he replied, "I bet you don't have a girlfriend"...

The "waste disposal" building was over near the baseball field and i can't remember what all was in there, but it was a bunch of drums and biohazard stickers everywhere.

3/17/2011 8:14:40 PM

you could run the ncsu reactor with a waterhose for perpetuity.

3/17/2011 8:20:07 PM

Is this why Sid could not win games? Did he has the radiation in his read blazer and should we PANIC?

3/17/2011 8:24:12 PM

I remember touring the Shearon Harris plant when I was in elementary school. when we saw the reactor chamber, the tour guide said you could crash two 747s on the tower, and it would still stand

so we asked what would happen if three 747s crashed on it. i think around that time we broke for lunch.

3/17/2011 8:31:13 PM

^yeah.. when i went last summer, the tour guide explained that they had really really changed security measures since 9/11.

we all had to have background checks to even be allowed on site, and then we couldn't go inside a certain razor wire fence. there were guards with assault rifles everywhere
we basically got to stand beside the cooling tower and "see" the building where the reactor is, but that's it.
it was still cool and informative

3/17/2011 8:36:33 PM

Quote :

"Breaking News: Crews are fighting a large house at 590 Black Angus Drive in Johnston County. "

4/30/2011 3:22:32 PM

HOUSE FIGHT




FREEDOM LIES IN THE BALANCE

4/30/2011 3:27:02 PM

She's like a brick.... house

4/30/2011 3:28:05 PM

The house attacks are both relentless and never ending. There's so much blood everywhere!

4/30/2011 3:28:45 PM

Quote :

"HIS READ BLAZER"

4/30/2011 3:36:08 PM

this just in the new courthouse has 2 3-megawatt diesel generators.

1 megawatt ain't sheit

well its about 1400 hp so its pretty stout more than a microwave but still not a lot.
clearly smaller than a 10 story building requires.


[Edited on April 30, 2011 at 3:41 PM. Reason : .]

4/30/2011 3:38:31 PM

set em up

4/30/2011 5:27:10 PM