bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
They are splitting atoms at Plant Vogtle Unit 3. Initial Criticality begun yesterday.
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Georgia Nuclear Power Milestone
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The only nuclear reactions I trust are 93,000,000 miles away and I like to keep it that way.
Hair Trigger
US Veteran
When does Unit 4 go on line? These two units make Vogtle the largest nuclear power plant in the US.
Now you're surrounded, if you live in upstate SC. Oconee to your west, Catawba and McGuire to your north, Vogtle south of you, Shearon Harris out to your east. Which way do you plan to run?
My son has been to the plant a few times. His work is in that field. The amount of safeguards incorporated into the regulations are very rigid and all encompassing. I would have no qualms about living near a nuclear reactor in the US. Russia on the other hand is a different matter.
Nuclear power is a net plus. Does this mean a glow in the dark future? Doubtful. Depending on unreliable Ecotech? Guarantees folks will end up shivering in the dark. JMHO. Sincerely. bruce.
Dave.357
Member
And they say Coal is bad for your health.
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bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
Shouldn't be much longer for Unit 4 start since they completed it's hydro tests. Guessing by the end of the year, barring the unforseen.When does Unit 4 go on line? These two units make Vogtle the largest nuclear power plant in the US.
Now you're surrounded, if you live in upstate SC. Oconee to your west, Catawba and McGuire to your north, Vogtle south of you, Shearon Harris out to your east. Which way do you plan to run?
I'm OK being surrounded. They're kind of like old friends, since I worked design during the construction of Harris and Vogtle 1 & 2.
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Good, no, great to see new nukes. If they built cars the way they do nuke plants, you'd have three of every sensor and if the readings of all three didn't agree within a specified tolerance, you'd get a warning light. If you didn't acknowledge the warning light within a set time frame, your engine would shut down.
I was on board this, SSBN 656, for a couple of years in the mid 60’s. Seemed pretty safe 57 years ago.
tominboise
Member
The real source for green energy. We should be building them all over the US.
I'm glad a nuke engineer didn't design my pacemaker!
I live about ten miles from a nuke plant, just outside its advertised "evacuation zone." I guess that's good as long as the wind doesn't blow this direction.
There are alot of nuclear reactors around and operating that people have no idea. After the Trojan plant was taken out of service, people of the state of Oregon thought they were reactor free. However, Oregon State University has a small research reactor that has been smashing atoms 7 hours a day since 1967. Reed College in Portland has another. Neither has melted down and these are run by college students. Reactor safety has come a LONG ways since Three Mile Island.
DWalt
Member
In the USA, there has not been a single known fatality resulting from the operation of a commercial nuclear power plant since the beginning of American commercial nuclear power production in the mid-1950s. Worldwide, there was one (possible) fatality from Fukishima, and an unknown but large number from Chernobyl. There have been numerous radiation-caused fatalities (but not that many, around 250) worldwide resulting mainly from nuclear material exposure incidents that were unrelated to commercial nuclear power generation. Draw your own conclusions about the safety of nuclear power generation.
Remember the joke that was making the rounds after the TMI incident? "There were more people killed in Ted Kennedy's car than at TMI."
Vogtle is the first nuke power plant built in the USA in the last 30 years. It is high time that there are many more built. I am a little biased about Vogtle, as stock in the Southern Company (parent of Georgia Power) has been one of my core portfolio holdings for many years and it has been very good to me.
Remember the joke that was making the rounds after the TMI incident? "There were more people killed in Ted Kennedy's car than at TMI."
Vogtle is the first nuke power plant built in the USA in the last 30 years. It is high time that there are many more built. I am a little biased about Vogtle, as stock in the Southern Company (parent of Georgia Power) has been one of my core portfolio holdings for many years and it has been very good to me.
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Soon after the event at Chernobyl, we got scads of information on what happened and how it happened. We also got video, including the aftermath for some of the workers. The helo pilot should have received the Hero of the Soviet Union or whatever the Russian Federation equivalent is.
So time back I watched part of a anniversary commemoration of the event. The cause the producers/media put forth wasn't what we'd had closer to the event. Be interesting to find out who/why things changed.
So time back I watched part of a anniversary commemoration of the event. The cause the producers/media put forth wasn't what we'd had closer to the event. Be interesting to find out who/why things changed.
DWalt
Member
There is (or was) a documentary about Chernobyl on Netflix I recommend watching.
But that's why nukes cost so much. I could go for reasonable safety at a more realistic price. I had a golf buddy who worked at Jenkinsville. He was a licensed engineer, who, along with two other engineers, looked over the shoulder of one welder.
I grew up 8 miles from the main gate of Savannah River Plant, maybe 20 from where Vogtle is now. I delivered newspapers to nuclear physicists. My mother was the first woman in the West, perhaps the world, to enter a nuclear reactor.
Nukers could be built for under a billion if it weren't for insane regulations.
10-4. I'm six from one on Hair Trigger's list.
Alarm tests get me sometimes. 11:50 on some odd Wednesday's. Been here 25 years, but when I here 'em I still think, "What the heck is that?"
We need a lot more of them!
