8.9 Earthquake hits Japan

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Here is what I know about Fukushima I.

It's similar to the GE BWR plant we have at Browns Ferry. Except they have 6 units to our 3. 4-6 is in outages though. It's outage season for nuclear folks. When we do our refueling. They lost offsite power and diesel generators for Unit 1. Units 2 and 3 are shutdown successfully. US Air Force has brought in some new DGs for them. Looks like they are going to be ok. Should be able to keep water over the fuel. Release won't be too bad if they can do that.

I hate BWRs, radiation is everywhere. Rad water powers the turbine. Mine is a PWR, rad water is contained in it's own loop. It doesn't come on the electrical producing side of the house such as the turbine. I do not go in the rad areas very often. I have only gotten dose once cause I had to go check out the pump motors for the similar pumps that they can't keep running in this case.

Hope this doesn't can our Nuke plans in the USA.