tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-583544120956527475.post3378366687394397962..comments2024-02-15T11:05:15.579-06:00Comments on Apathetic Lemming of the North: Fukushima, Japan: (Somewhat) Good News, Bad NewsBrian H. Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13209697542675181894noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-583544120956527475.post-26272734650265515182011-03-21T16:22:51.764-05:002011-03-21T16:22:51.764-05:00Atlanta Roofing,
Good point. Also sorry about tak...Atlanta Roofing,<br /><br />Good point. Also sorry about taking so long, attending to your comment.<br /><br />It's possible, I suppose, that one of the reactors could have been put back on line - but the earthquake was a sincerely non-trivial event by itself, and the tsunami does not seem to have been particularly localized in its effects.<br /><br />There's going to be a lot of 'what if' speculation: but the impression I've been left with is that, after Japan's most powerful earthquake ever recorded - none of the reactors were particularly reliable. Which is why they were being shut down.<br /><br />I think that nuclear reactors are a practical way to generate electricity. But I also think that keeping a reactor running, when it may have been seriously damaged, makes about as much sense as smoking in a room full of gasoline vapor.<br /><br />Which doesn't mean that I think that the company running the plant did a flawless job.<br /><br />I do think that there's a great deal of re-evaluation going on in Japan right now, about how the Fukushima plant was handled.Brian H. Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209697542675181894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-583544120956527475.post-84020392149614424452011-03-20T20:39:05.217-05:002011-03-20T20:39:05.217-05:00Could one of the reactors have been put on line af...Could one of the reactors have been put on line after they realized the back up power diesel generators were disabled by the Tsunami? If so, then they over reacted by not using one of the reactors as power. If another shock wave took it off power then one of the other reactors could have been prepared in turn until the diesel engines were fixed or other powers lines were put in place. Was total shutoff the right position without power backup?Atlanta Roofinghttp://atlantaroofingresources.com/noreply@blogger.com