Pluto and the "Nuclear Age"

[Hermes]

Looking more and more like after Pluto's loss of planetary status in
2006 that also nuclear power and nuclear arms are being gradually
reduced in the world. Nuclear arms with ideas like a nuclear-free
world promoted for the first time (afaik) by a US president or with
the successful software sabotage by probably US and Israeli secret
service of Iranian centrifuges so that they became effectively
unsuable. And, of course, now the aftermath of the nuclear disaster in
Japan. Side remark as a physicist: I must admit that I had not been
aware of the fact that the security of a nuclear reactor has so far
been based on that ability to permanently cool it - seems like a
fundamental design "flaw" to me! Mercury retrograde.

)o+

[Todd Carnes]

I must admit that I had not been aware of the fact that the security
of a nuclear reactor has so far been based on that ability to
permanently cool it - seems like a fundamental design "flaw" to me!
Mercury retrograde.

I think it is a design flaw. This not only wouldn't, but couldn't happen
to the reactors that I was trained on.

Todd

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Post by Todd Carnes

I must admit that I had not been aware of the fact that the security
of a nuclear reactor has so far been based on that ability to
permanently cool it - seems like a fundamental design "flaw" to me!
Mercury retrograde.

I think it is a design flaw. This not only wouldn't, but couldn't happen
to the reactors that I was trained on.

It's called "active cooling" apparently, whereas more modern reactors have
"passive cooling" that needs no power supply. But yes, that particular
reactor (which is quite old) certainly has a design flaw. As I understand
it, the problem was that without power they couldn't keep the water moving -
another Mercury retrograde feature?
Was it the chart for the accident itself that had Mercury retrograde? Come
to think of it, I don't seem to have looked at that chart yet. Must get on
to that.