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PamW

(1,825 posts)
5. BALONEY!!! Why make up CRAP???
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 07:42 PM
Nov 2013

Bennyboy states
including the one on the coast here, Diablo Canyon, which is very similar in design as FUKU

100% WRONG - MADE UP CRAP

The Diablo Canyon plant is NOT "very similar in design to FUKU"; in fact it is NOTHING like it.

Diablo Canyon is a PWR - Pressurized Water Reactor designed by Westinghouse.

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/animated-pwr.html

Fukushima reactors are all BWR - Boiling Water Reactor designed by GE, and licensed to Toshiba / Hitachi.

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/animated-bwr.html

Diablo Canyon has a PWR type containment building that is a large cylindrical structure designed to handle immense overpressures.

Fukushima has a rather small primary containment, that has to use a pressure-suppression system to keep the pressure within limits.

Fukushima had its backup diesel generators in a non-watertight basement, and the fuel tanks for same were at dockside and out it the open.

Diablo Canyon has backup diesel generators that are in a watertight vault, and the fuel tanks are buried; all as per US NRC regulations.

In addition, go to Google Earth or Bing Aerial and LOOK at the Diablo Canyon site. You can get the coordinates by going to the Wikipedia entry on "Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant" and in the upper right hand corner; there are the coordinates that you can click on thru to either Google Earth or Bing Aerial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant

Look at the area just norteast of the plant which is up the hill. There are TWO LARGE pools of backup reactor coolant water. In case of a problem; the water from these pools can be fed by GRAVITY - no need to find a backup for gravity.

So you just made a FALSE statement about Diablo Canyon.

How come anti-nukes always seem to be so DISHONEST. They bleat like mad about the "nuclear industry" telling lies, and how bad that is. However, when push comes to shove; the ones that are really doing the LYING are the anti-nukes.

The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

PamW

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