Thursday, August 18, 2011

Naval Reactors (Bettis and KAPL) & Fukushima

Somehow the 15 page document slipped through the NRC's sticky fingers and onto the Internet. The slide below is part of the first page of that document. The point of this blog entry is not that document, however as an opening distraction, interested parties may read that document by searching under "rst assessment of fukushima daichi units"

The point of this blog entry is that the assessment of Fulushima Daiichi included data and input from Bettis and KAPL among other sources. Now, there is very little that is publicly disclosed regarding activities at Bettis and KAPL, so it is "interesting" that Bettis and KAPL are among those credited with the following from page 1 of the 15 page report, "Core is contained in the reactor pressure vessel, reactor water level is unknown. The volume of sea water injected to cool the core has left enough salt to fill the lower plenum to the core plate. (GEH, INPO, Bettis, KAPL)."








1 comment:

Aladar said...

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2011/11-158.pdf
This is how NRC delays the response to the zirc-water issue, even after Fukushima Daiichi.

How many more reactors have to be lost to the face saving of NRC?!

Aladar Stolmar