First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by logifail on Saturday February 16, 2019 @04:29AM (#19177891)

> Moral of the story? Keep your box of boronic sand nice and dry.

See also:

"For every three units of energy produced by the reactor core of a U.S. nuclear power plants, two units are discharged to the environment as waste heat. Nuclear plants are built on the shores of lakes, rivers, and oceans because these bodies provide the large quantities of cooling water needed to handle the waste heat discharge."[0]

[0] https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_technolog...

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by londons_explore on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:48AM (#19189604)

Pretty much every energy source has a lot of waste heat produced.

Solar panels get hot, gas turbines have hot exhausts, coal plants have cooling towers etc.

They all approximate a heat engine, and they must theoretically give off heat to the cold reservoir

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by logifail on Monday February 18, 2019 @08:30AM (#19190464)

> They all approximate a heat engine

For each of those energy sources mentioned, what would happen if the generating station were to be completely inundated with water?

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