Comments on: New Toshiba reactor model gets U.S. nod via The Japan Times Online http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2011/12/25/new-toshiba-reactor-model-gets-u-s-nod-via-the-japan-times-online/ Sat, 18 May 2013 13:13:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: entrepreneur http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2011/12/25/new-toshiba-reactor-model-gets-u-s-nod-via-the-japan-times-online/comment-page-1/#comment-105599 entrepreneur Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:59:51 +0000 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/?p=11672#comment-105599 New design reactor should be welcomed to reduce the risk of nuclear accidents. China is planing to introduce 50 reactors in future because they are very anxious about the bad effect of thermal power plant and so on. Now China depends on nuclear power a few parentage of total energy supply. They want to increase percentage 7-8 times as much as current level. New technology will help their project.
At this moment there are about hundred nuclear power plant in America and fifty plant in Japan. On the other hand China has only ten plant. When we think the problem of global warming, China should depend on nuclear power much further instead of thermal power.

]]> By: norma field http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2011/12/25/new-toshiba-reactor-model-gets-u-s-nod-via-the-japan-times-online/comment-page-1/#comment-105551 norma field Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:47:57 +0000 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/?p=11672#comment-105551 There’s astonishing logic presented later in the article: “The NRC decided to waive the normal 30-day waiting period before issuing licenses because Southern had requested a quicker schedule in anticipation that the commission would approve the reactor design, according to a memo by a NRC worker released Thursday.”

A regulatory body waives a waiting period because the regulatee requests a quicker schedule–in a matter this grave?

So there’s a water tank on top of the shielding building. To this lay reader, there is nothing in the article explaining what might happen with “prolonged loss of power” after the water in the tank is exhausted–how is more water going to get pumped up?

Not to mention other unresolved issues, like what to do with spent fuel rods.

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