I am not surprised that Japan has 18 Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) to feed its huge power demand from industries such as Steel Plants, Automobile assembly lines, Electronics factories and high power demands from the utilities, markets, house holds, considering the fact that Japan has neither hydel nor thermal sources such as coal. But what is surprising is that, while, I am sure that all these NPPs would have defenitely been designed with utmost safety to withstand the shock and vibrations of an earthquake, which are frequent, coz, Japan lies on the Tectonic fault line, the plants are not protected from the effects of Tsunami waves, that will eventually be generated, if a massive EQ happens down under the sea, as it has happened now.
The 13 feet waves have inundated the Diesel Generators at the Fukushima NPP which pump water to cool the reactors which have been shut down automatically, on sensing the EQ, with the horrible result of melting down of the fuel rods due to excessive temperatures. This results in fire, blowing up of the protective dome and spewing the radio-active clouds that will drift all over the globe, akin to what happened during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Russia, after which the radio active dust clouds were roaming above much of Europe for months.
The DG sets should have been placed high above the likely water levels of the possible tsunami waves, may be at 30 feet above ground, which, obviously has not been done. I hope, at least now, the DG sets will be placed at an elevated level, so that future Tsunamis cannot shut them down in other NPPs.
Any country is free to build NPP subject to the restrictions and inspections of IAEA.
But it is high time that the designs of the NPPs on the sea shore, like that of Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu in India, have to be examined vis-a-vis its adequacy to handle Tsunami waves.
It is to be remembered that the entire township was evacuated during the 2006 Tsunami caused by the EQ near Indonesian coast.
The world is at peril, if the earth wobbles slightly on its axis, which is defenite to happen, due to the uneven surface movements. Then expect Tsunami waves of 20 meter (60 feet) tall which will wipe out most of the habitats on the sea shore and many countries such as Japan, British Isles, Australia will be under water.
The 13 feet waves have inundated the Diesel Generators at the Fukushima NPP which pump water to cool the reactors which have been shut down automatically, on sensing the EQ, with the horrible result of melting down of the fuel rods due to excessive temperatures. This results in fire, blowing up of the protective dome and spewing the radio-active clouds that will drift all over the globe, akin to what happened during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Russia, after which the radio active dust clouds were roaming above much of Europe for months.
The DG sets should have been placed high above the likely water levels of the possible tsunami waves, may be at 30 feet above ground, which, obviously has not been done. I hope, at least now, the DG sets will be placed at an elevated level, so that future Tsunamis cannot shut them down in other NPPs.
Any country is free to build NPP subject to the restrictions and inspections of IAEA.
But it is high time that the designs of the NPPs on the sea shore, like that of Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu in India, have to be examined vis-a-vis its adequacy to handle Tsunami waves.
It is to be remembered that the entire township was evacuated during the 2006 Tsunami caused by the EQ near Indonesian coast.
The world is at peril, if the earth wobbles slightly on its axis, which is defenite to happen, due to the uneven surface movements. Then expect Tsunami waves of 20 meter (60 feet) tall which will wipe out most of the habitats on the sea shore and many countries such as Japan, British Isles, Australia will be under water.
The existing Nuclear Power Plants cannot be resited.
ReplyDeleteThe time to shut down a NPP is just the time to re-insert the withdrawn moderator tubes. This should be less than a minute.
Normally we do have tsunami warnings of more than a minute. Thus once a tsunami warning is received, the NPP is shut down. There is no need to have the cooling plant in operation for a NPP that is shut down.
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Electric power is required to retract the fuel rods from the reactor in order to shut down the reactor.The EQ resulted in the power failure and so the fuel rods could not be retracted from the reactor; The DG sets were inundated by the Tsunami waves and failed. So there was no standby power also. So the rods were inside the reactor therby generating heat which could not be cooled because of failure of cooling water pumps. That is what happened exactly at the NPP at Fukushima and the second explosion.
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Swarnashula Swamy said: I am not surprised that Japan has 18 Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) to feed its huge power demand from industries such as Steel Plants,.....
ReplyDeleteJapan has 55 operating nuclear power reactors in 17 power stations, 2 new stations are under contruction and 7 more in the planing stage.