03-13-2011, 07:32 PM
According to Wikipedia, the Fukushima reactor #1 is a BWR1 design... so mid 1960's technology... a single-loop, boiling water reactor.
The one you post is a modern generation, two loop, pressurized water reactor.
I'm CERTAIN that whatever we learn from Fukushima is going to be applied...
HOW it's going to be applied is going to depend on a couple years of "post mortem" examination of this accident.
SHOULD Fukushima #1 (and #3) have been designed for a 9.1 quake, AND a Tsunami? Quite possibly... it's a once in a thousand year event..Maybe even once in SEVERAL thousand years.
The one you post is a modern generation, two loop, pressurized water reactor.
I'm CERTAIN that whatever we learn from Fukushima is going to be applied...
HOW it's going to be applied is going to depend on a couple years of "post mortem" examination of this accident.
SHOULD Fukushima #1 (and #3) have been designed for a 9.1 quake, AND a Tsunami? Quite possibly... it's a once in a thousand year event..Maybe even once in SEVERAL thousand years.