Tunnel with nuclear waste collapses in Washington state; workers near site evacuated

[spaminator]

Tunnel with nuclear waste collapses in Washington state; workers near site evacu

 

[Danbones]

move along folks
no radiation leaks to see here

 

[Curious Cdn]

Good thing, they build earthquake-proof nuclear installations along the West Coast, eh?

 

[Johnnny]

Only 8 ft of overburden above the tunnels?, kinda shallow...

 

[B00Mer]

Good thing, they build earthquake-proof nuclear installations along the West Coast, eh?

Like Japan building in a earthquake and tsunami zone LOL

Godzilla

 

[Jinentonix]

Like Japan building in a earthquake and tsunami zone LOL

Godzilla

Well, in all fairness, pretty much anyplace you could slap a nuclear power plant in Japan would be in an earthquake and tsunami zone.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Well, in all fairness, pretty much anyplace you could slap a nuclear power plant in Japan would be in an earthquake and tsunami zone.

The problem there was that the emergency back-up core cooling required water to be pumped, with electric pumps, UPHILL to cool the core. Guess what? If you're in a catastrophic situation, you don't have power, or enough power and nothing is being pumped uphill and your core melts. General Electric, eh?

It costs a bloody fortune to add the feature but each CANDU reactor houses a huge tank of water right over the core and it something goes really wrong, the water flows downward by gravity.

If gravity fails ... well, all bets are off.