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You think Fukushima is the worst? Guess again
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Fukushima No. 4 has only a few hundreds of spent rods above the reactor, and former Japan's Ambassador call it a potential catastrophe.
In Taiwan Nuclear Power 2, there are 4000 spent rods stored in similar way, equal to the radiation material of 50,000 small atomic bombs! The design is GE Mark III. Because Taiwanese govt cannot find a nice place to store these rods, they've been accumulated there "temporarily" over 30 years.
If it fails someday, we have a ELE for the world. (Taipei is definitely doomed, only 20 km between Taipei downtown to the nuclear reactor!)
On Mar 16, it generated very strange 0.29G vertical vibration on the No. 2 Nuclear Reactor when they inserted control rods to perform routine shutdown. (Anyone can explain it?) It is about the vibration of a M4 earthquake. The power plant was only designed to resist 0.4G earthquake.
Taiwanese govt tried to cover up until the media and congress found out after Apr 4. They found 7 bolts broken (total 120 bolts used to fix the position of reactor). No one knows for sure if there are other bolts with issues.
If the bolts fail to work, the worse scenario is failure to insert the control rods! Then we have a nuclear reactor that cannot be shutdown! Cool?
In Fukushima, the control rods are successfully inserted, although meltdown still happened.
This reactor has been operating over 30 years, exceeding the warranty time of GE. TaiPower, which seems as corrupt as TEPCO, wants to keep it running for cheaper cost. TaiPower insisted that Taiwan Nuclear Reactor 2 is all fine. After brief repair, it will be started again on Apr 20.
Actually the worst case is very unlikely to happen since we still have many unbroken bolts and no big earthquakes happened yet (although Taiwan is on the ring of fire). I just don't get what the FUCK they are thinking!
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