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Originally Posted by geetrue
They must not be telling the whole story with black smoke coming out of a transformer too.
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That's half of it.
Heavy-water reactors have a containment pool specifically for the tritium in the primary loop. Tritium is
only in the primary loop.
Now, if someone starts dropping MOABs on the reactor building, then you're going to get a leak in the primary loop. And those same MOABs may crack the 3 meter thick re-enforced concrete containment pool which is made specifically to stop a tritium leak. You can have a loop leak and the tritium is
captured in the housing as designed. It's also possible to crack that pool and the expansion foam such that the tritium actually escapes into the earth.
I seriously doubt, with a 6.8 earthquake, that the tritium escaped the containment pool. Japanese engineers planned for quakes of that magnitude. That's why I hate all the fear mongering by the media. There's more than one kind of tritium leak. There's more than one kind of heavy-water moderated reactor. There's more than one kind of pressurized water reactor. But they're all just referred to as a "nuclear power plant".
Barbara Striesand doesn't have a "home" or a "house"; she's got a "compound". She doesn't have a "car" or an "automobile", she's got a "class-4 armoured vehicle" or she's got a "Maserati GranTurismo". There a
big f-ing difference to her. Or to Dick Cheney. Or Steve Jobs. And if you don't recognize their exceptional equity with popular terminology, then they're going to perceive you as an ignoramous (or just a low-life).
So when these wankers discuss Chernobyl and Three-Mile-Island and China Syndrome, and somehow manage to equate all of them with current nuclear engineering, I am nothing less than
disgusted. Every single time.
edit-- Ok. That's probably a secondary loop leak in the turbine section, thus the involvement of a transformer. There is a tiny bit of deutritium and tritium formed in the secondary.