In reply to mjd. RCIC is basically a feed water turbine pump driven off of reactor pressure (steam) and ...
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In reply to Rod Adams. Didn't the NRC and European regulators have concerns about the independence of th...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114847
In reply to Cpragman. From my most reliable BWR source, Fukushima 1 is a BWR-3 with a Mark 1 containment...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114843
In reply to jmdesp. It's also worth remembering that the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) was designed...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114828
In reply to mjd. The 4 trains are there to enhance availability, you can do repairs on one without shutt...
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In reply to mjd. It seems that a "safety focus" of Mr. Lochbaum fits well with the UCS's quiet objective...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114812
In reply to mjd. @mjd To me it looks like a small void collapse that coincides with turning off the iso ...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114797
Interesting podcast. Especially noteworthy are Dave's wriggling around the facts of San Onofre, that it simply needed proper husbanding, not shutdown. And, we in calif. now burn coal as well as g...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114777
In reply to mjd. I think that SMRs have the potential to be more competitive than other plants if they m...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114764
In reply to Cyril R.. I would have preferred that Adams focused half of the show on why UCS is concerned...
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In reply to Joffan. Can a BWR operator review Mr. Lochbaum's dissection of the U1 data in reference 1 ab...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114759
I think you've nailed it exactly. Nothing else really makes sense to me. Why would UCS endorse an EPR when it just compounds the exact problem that drives the price to uneconomical; the cost of a...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114756
The UCS' positions are sometimes a bit odd, yes. They are mostly anti-nuclear but with a bit of perspective. Another example is the UCS position on the new reactor designs. They were of the opini...
https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114746
Dave Lochbaum's dissection of the post-earthquake, pre-tsunami data from the Fukushima reactors 1 https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-237-dave-lochbaum-ucs/#comment-114714