If you'd like an education on USA nuclear plants and the physics of how they work, along with material properties, let me know and I'll be glad to buy the burgers and beers at Happy Jacks! My 40 years in nuclear power plants and atomic weapons might just give me enough background to bore you to tears! [emoji2]
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No problem, these defects will be given a chance to turn themselves in to the authorities, if they cause more problems in the future they will be "dealt with" accordingly!
Must be that foreign Eurasian Plate trying to bully around the little Philippines Plate that is upsetting Mount Pinatubo. Immigration can deport the Eurasian Plate to remind the other foreigner plates about the "Filipino First" policy. Problem solved! Now where can the Philippines buy some slightly enriched U235 for their light-water reactor that's been sitting around for the last 32 years?
....the rehabilitation cost has a "budget" of $1B USD. With all the hands in the cookie jar here I'd expect that to double by the time they were finished....and construction would likely still be sub-par making it a disaster waiting to happen. The location is about the worst place you could possibly place a nuclear power plant in the country IMO. Aside from the fault lines and volcanoes, it's upwind from the most highly populated and urbanized region of the country as well as the most productive farmland and near the mouth of two of the country's busiest shipping ports.
Population Density
Rice Production
Current Wind Direction
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I'm certainly not claiming to be an expert on nuclear power plants or their placement but the plant's current location is certainly not the place I would want to be placing something that is capable of spitting out a lot of radioactive materials. Also, Japan, a disciplined, educated and technologically advanced country, could barely keep their recent nuclear disaster under control....what chance could Philippine emergency response, government or military have? I understand the Fukishima reactor was a much larger than the Bantaan power plant but the Philippine government's response to Yolanda, and pretty much every other natural disaster that has ever occurred here, should be about all anyone needs to see how prepared their are to deal with a nuclear disaster of any size.
Note: The estimate for the original construction was $500M USD....which then jumped to $1.2B without any explanation (Gee, I wonder why there wasn't much explanation for the price hike?
). By the time they finished the project the construction had totaled over $2.3B USD. I wonder where that $1.8B difference went? They found out the company had sold the same technology to other countries for much cheaper. Evil foreign corporation taking advantage....or just the cost of doing business in the Philippines?
The Philippines did try their luck with a lawsuit against Westinghouse for fraud in the US courts....but it didn't go well for them. It is an interesting read and gives a little hint on who might have been lining their pockets and responsible for the ridiculous cost of construction:
Republic of the Philippines v. Westinghouse Elec., 714 F. Supp. 1362 (D.N.J. 1989)
Anyone surprised?
I'm hoping this is just some "Filipino Pride" article and more rational/logical ideas to deal with the country's energy problems are actually on the table.Attached Files:
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If I start talking about six sigma, you better smack me up side the head!
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Chernobyl was a crappy graphite moderated reactor that caused so much misery because the gosh-darned graphite caught on fire. Old Westinghouse reactors are just mundane pressurized water reactors with over 40 years of experience in multiple settings worldwide. Not really a lot of excitement with those reactors, but at least they're reliable.
Solar? I'd love to see the world switch to solar when there's a nighttime storage solution (pumped storage is great).
Hydroelectric? Sure, I love hydroelectric plants. Just they don't produce a lot of power during dry seasons unless there's a big enough dam to hold all the water. Seems like the Philippines would be ripe for that with the mountains and heavy rainfall!
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