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AtheistCrusader

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45. How do dry casks of commercial rods 'leak into the columbia river'?

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:05 AM

Apr 2016

If you can't even solidly answer the 'easier to handle' question, there's no point talking to you because you're not serious.

Those are dry casks. Those are CLEARLY easier to handle than the muck of unknown quantities and types, leaking in LIQUID form from a tank that was holding hundreds of thousands of gallons of said unknown radioactive shit.

Those dry casks are pretty safe. Something would have to tear them apart to cause problems with the fuel inside, and even then, it would be solid chunks of spent fuel, not a liquid slurry of radioactive shit.

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Ok - 8 inches sounds bad, but not if it's in a 50 gallon drum. A better estimate of the actual jonno99 Apr 2016 #2

Try 20,000 gallons containing some of the worst waste in existence. JEB Apr 2016 #3

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^^^^this^^^^ mopinko Apr 2016 #16

Probably not.... Delver Rootnose Apr 2016 #41

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It is relevenant, for two reasons. AtheistCrusader Apr 2016 #19

I agree with everything you posted JimDandy Apr 2016 #23

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Usually when someone starts a sentence with 'so' a massive, ridiculous strawman follows. AtheistCrusader Apr 2016 #31

That is generally correct, BUT... bvar22 Apr 2016 #33

Never suggested it was safe. AtheistCrusader Apr 2016 #35

Not really....NO. bvar22 Apr 2016 #36

How do dry casks of commercial rods 'leak into the columbia river'? AtheistCrusader Apr 2016 #45

How is the deadly radioactive waste removed from the power plant bvar22 Apr 2016 #52

They are moved to a cooling pool until the decay heat is within spec for the cask. AtheistCrusader Apr 2016 #53

"not a leakage hazard like the Hanford mess" bvar22 Apr 2016 #54

How do solid metal rods "leak" when their casks are pierced? NickB79 Apr 2016 #58

What about the water in the "cooling ponds"? bvar22 Apr 2016 #59

I believe that's actually safe. AtheistCrusader Apr 2016 #61

I suppose the casks could get hit with a meteor or something, sure. AtheistCrusader Apr 2016 #60

The solid fuel rods are lifted out with a crane NickB79 Apr 2016 #57

agree completely Angel Martin Apr 2016 #55

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