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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <_2sr7==@dixie.com>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 04:28:19 GMT
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
- References: <1992Dec31.165855.22315@vexcel.com> <58188@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec31.165855.22315@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >>In article <p2qrxnc@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >>nor will it drastically change operational costs. There is no
- >>experience with 50 year old reactors. I have read that the issue
- >>of embrittlement is not well understood. If John De Armond
- >>thinks these figures are junk he better take his arguments to his
- >>friends in the nuclear industry.
-
- Ahhh, Yackadamn's back!!!! Just like a persistent case of the Clap.
-
- >The facts are that there are proposed methods for reversing embittlement
- >but they have not been tried except in the Soviet Union and, I believe,
- >one small experimental reactor in Belgium. The costs of these proposed
- >methods are large, their effectiveness is not known.
-
- Cost is only high relative to small things like, say, your paycheck.
- Relative to new power plant construction, annealing the pot is trivial.
- As to effectiveness, if you've ever annealed a piece of hardened
- steel, you know how effective heat is in eliminating stress. Really
- does not matter how the stress got there.
-
- >The NRC shut down
- >Yankee Rowe precisely because its containment vessel showed signs of
- >losing enough ductility to make its continued operation dangerous. The
- >utility chose to decomission rather than to attempt annealing. The
- >rapidity of ductility loss is the subject of controversy.
-
- Three strikes and you're out, yackadamn. Yankee was shut down by the
- utility because it was a tiny unit that was not economical - in the
- judgement of the untility - to refurb. While I would have liked to
- see Yankee do a demonsration project with that tiny reactor, it was
- not my money to spend.
-
- C'mon Yack. You can do better than that. What's wrong, still drunk
- from New Years?
-
- John
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