Nuclear power and Earthquake

Troneg
by Troneg
12-Mar-2011
 

As you may read in newspapers, a huge explosion has rocked a Japanese nuclear power plant damaged by Friday's devastating earthquake. //www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

There is a very high potetiel to have Japanease Tchernobyl !

Iran is also a country where we experience regularly earthquakes! What if it happens tomorrow in Iran ?!

 

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Dear Darius: Please name 1 high tech item, not 2, not 3, ....

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Dear somebody!

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 Now, I know exactly what kind of people brought Khomeini and his gang to power in Iran!

aftabe sazi" is not  the problem, people like you, are the problem. 

Aftabe is the only thing you can vision, beyond that you get confused. 

How  could anyone ,any Iranian ever get chance to go forward when

individual like you are amongst them ?

It is not British,American or colonialpower , it is you and your likes

that always stop the nations .Your  love is not for the sake of

iranian who would die in  nuclear accident, you see no place for Iranian in any field period, that has nothing to do with Evil IRI. As

a matter of fact IRI love to see you around .

Good luck to you 

 

 

 


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Possible but is not limited to Iran

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The nuclear plants are expensive to build ,because in any design two important element are considered priority, safety of public and the safety of the reactor core that holds the nuclear fuel.

All the safety features are designed in redundancy to make sure that

in any catastrophic events  the reactor cooling system successfully

removes the heat of  fission to avoid any leak of the fissionable

products to atmosphere and environment.(the very first thing that escape the containment is gases , one is I-131 that attacks thyroid gland)

The power plant in Iran and Japan are PWR , the primary system is isolated from the secondary , there is no  chance  ofcontamination  and the coolant in reactor core is confined in a closed loop and it is not returned to  environment in any way.

The coolant is the sea water and by injecting huge amount of water

to the steam generator the hit produced by the fission is removed.

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And let's not forget the nuclear waste issue, and the fact that it remains highly toxic for tens of thousands of years.

And of course the military applications of nuclear power. Remember that?

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