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External Power Line Connected To Crippled Nuke Plant Unclear If Pumps Can Still Operate Update Hope To Restart Reactor 2 Cooling Soon
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[quote:The Chef:MV8xNDAzNzExXzIzMTA4ODM4XzJGOTI5NTMy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 968949] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1223844] The pumps are all covered with salt water now. As soon as they hook electricity to them, they're gonna crumble into dust if they don't flush that crap out of there. But they can't, because they can't get anywhere near the pumps. Salt water is bad news for electrical stuff. [/quote] You would think the G.E.plant makers knew these pumps were critical and were exposed to EQ and possible tsnami waves and should be made and put somewhere waterproof at the least, self regulaters and big corprations rubber stamping themselves again, unless that was the plan to have THEM exposed.Would love to see pics of these pumps or blueprints maybe to see loacations. [/quote] Well for what it is worth three GE engineers resigned over the design of this plant. I have seen a few articles that say this is the only design that stores the used fuel rods over the reactor core. The engineers were very concerned that this plant was not as safe as it could be but for convenience the design was not changed. [/quote]
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he Tokyo Electric Power Co. has connected an external transmission line with the stricken nuclear power plant Friday and confirmed that electricity can be supplied, Reuters reported, in a move hoping to cool down the exposed nuclear fuel rods.
In a statement, the company said it "planned to supply Unit 2 first, followed by Unit 1, Unit 3 and Unit 4 ... because Unit 2 is expected to be less damaged" at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
Despite the connection, there is no guarantee the pumps will work even if they have electricity.
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