Topic: weird dream
hamfist !t5TYQ9eJPs started this discussion 11 years ago #42,483
i had a dream i was hired to clean up radioactive waste and it was really stressful and smelled bad. there was also a room full of unwashed hair i had to navigate through for some reasonSyntax joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 16 minutes later[^] [v] #563,817
IF you want this dream to come true? Decades of work available about 30 minutes north of me
Southern California Edison built San Onofre's two nuclear reactors in about nine years, but tearing them down will be a technically complex, multibillion-dollar job completed over decades.
It is likely that Edison first will mothball the plant, which under federal rules could keep its imposing imprint on the Orange-San Diego County coastline for another half-century.
When the plant does come down, it will be a massive job.
Tons of highly radioactive fuel now stored in pools will have to cool before the rods can be moved to concrete pads outdoors. Giant pipes that extend more than a mile into the ocean will have to come out. Pieces of the reactors will have to be cut with special saws and torches that reach 20 feet into the vessels' cooling water.
“They do very highly engineered cuts and stack the pieces like Pringle potato chips,” said John Christian, a division president at EnergySolutions, which is decommissioning a nuclear plant in Illinois that also has two large reactors similar to San Onofre’s.
Three-foot-thick walls of steel-reinforced concrete at San Onofre will have to be fractured by mechanical shears and carefully hauled out. Wrecking balls and dynamite are seldom, if ever, used in decommissioning nuclear plants.
Debris then would be sent on special rail cars to dumps that can accommodate low-level radioactive waste. Right now, the only two such sites in the U.S. are in Utah and Texas.
An estimated 3 million pounds of spent fuel at San Onofre is so radioactive that no repository exists that can handle it, meaning it will have to remain in concrete casks on the coast for decades, if not indefinitely.
"It is a difficult job but not impossible," said Kevin Crowley, director of the nuclear and radiation studies board at the National Research Council. "The difficulty is separating the contaminated parts."
Southern California Edison built San Onofre's two nuclear reactors in about nine years, but tearing them down will be a technically complex, multibillion-dollar job completed over decades.
It is likely that Edison first will mothball the plant, which under federal rules could keep its imposing imprint on the Orange-San Diego County coastline for another half-century.
When the plant does come down, it will be a massive job.
Tons of highly radioactive fuel now stored in pools will have to cool before the rods can be moved to concrete pads outdoors. Giant pipes that extend more than a mile into the ocean will have to come out. Pieces of the reactors will have to be cut with special saws and torches that reach 20 feet into the vessels' cooling water.
“They do very highly engineered cuts and stack the pieces like Pringle potato chips,” said John Christian, a division president at EnergySolutions, which is decommissioning a nuclear plant in Illinois that also has two large reactors similar to San Onofre’s.
Three-foot-thick walls of steel-reinforced concrete at San Onofre will have to be fractured by mechanical shears and carefully hauled out. Wrecking balls and dynamite are seldom, if ever, used in decommissioning nuclear plants.
Debris then would be sent on special rail cars to dumps that can accommodate low-level radioactive waste. Right now, the only two such sites in the U.S. are in Utah and Texas.
An estimated 3 million pounds of spent fuel at San Onofre is so radioactive that no repository exists that can handle it, meaning it will have to remain in concrete casks on the coast for decades, if not indefinitely.
"It is a difficult job but not impossible," said Kevin Crowley, director of the nuclear and radiation studies board at the National Research Council. "The difficulty is separating the contaminated parts."
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 25 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #563,836
Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #563,837
@previous (C)
Ya need to pass 5th grade cause all dat text is from Newspaper
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/08/local/la-me-san-onofre-nuclear-20130609
Ya need to pass 5th grade cause all dat text is from Newspaper
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/08/local/la-me-san-onofre-nuclear-20130609
Anonymous C replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 46 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #563,840
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 47 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #563,841
@563,837 (Syntax)
And I was so sure that it was off the top of your head, and a good indication of your general knowledge about all subjects...
And I was so sure that it was off the top of your head, and a good indication of your general knowledge about all subjects...
Anonymous C replied with this 11 years ago, 22 seconds later, 47 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #563,842
Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 56 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #563,853
@563,841 (D)
Have a few friends who worked at that Nuke place and now don't. But as to details of clean up - Other then having to pay huge amounts of $$$ from my power bill for years n years for mistrakes the investors should be paying - I was not aware this is a multiple decade long venture to clean it up.
Have a few friends who worked at that Nuke place and now don't. But as to details of clean up - Other then having to pay huge amounts of $$$ from my power bill for years n years for mistrakes the investors should be paying - I was not aware this is a multiple decade long venture to clean it up.
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 59 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #563,855
@OP
What show is that?
What show is that?