TEPCO Unveils Plan To Deal With Fukushima Crisis 238
RedEaredSlider writes "Tokyo Electric Power Co. unveiled its plan for dealing with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. TEPCO said the radiation levels should drop over the next three months. It will take about six months for the reactors to achieve 'cold shutdown' in which the temperature of the water inside the reactor is less than 100 degrees Celsius (212 F). The current plan for cooling the reactors will mean injecting nitrogen into the reactor pressure vessel. All four damaged reactors experienced hydrogen explosions when water, heated by nuclear fuel, turned to steam and reacted with the zirconium alloy cladding of the fuel rods. Hydrogen, when exposed to oxygen, combusts. Nitrogen is an inert gas, so TEPCO hopes that it will prevent further explosions."
Re:Half-life (Score:3, Funny)
Your assertion then is that they have done and are doing nothing?
Pack your bags, smart ass, we are sending you over there to run into the plant and turn on the cooling pumps.
Re:Not inert at all. (Score:5, Funny)
Sigh.
N2 is inert, unless they're planning on planting peanuts in the reactor room...
Re:Best laid plans (Score:5, Funny)
solar lobbies.
Yeah, who do those freaking sun-lovers think they are? Don't they realise if we all use the sun it will go out faster?