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ikalugin · 08-11-19, 07:01 PM

Coal power plants release more radioactivity per MW of installed power due to them constantly burning large quantities of coal which contain small proportions of radioactive materials. But as with the frogs people do not notice themselves being slowly boiled so to speak.

As to the waste - with fast reactors you can close the fuel cycle and more or less re-use the fuel. One of such set ups would be BREST-300-OD and BN-800 and BN-1200 though only BN-800 made it so far and the others have uncertain fates.

As to the incident near to Severodvinsk - it is unclear as to what has happened there, but 5 Rosatom (well, their subsidiery) employees died, most likely from radioactive exposure and there was a small/short time period spike in gamma radioactivity in the nearby Severodvinsk but no tell tale signs of reactor mulfunction (ie no radioactive Iodine).
My hypothesis from available reporting is that they have had a chemical explosion of some sort in close proximity to radio-thermal power source they were working on.

08-11-19, 07:01 PM	#77
ikalugin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 3,212 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Coal power plants release more radioactivity per MW of installed power due to them constantly burning large quantities of coal which contain small proportions of radioactive materials. But as with the frogs people do not notice themselves being slowly boiled so to speak. As to the waste - with fast reactors you can close the fuel cycle and more or less re-use the fuel. One of such set ups would be BREST-300-OD and BN-800 and BN-1200 though only BN-800 made it so far and the others have uncertain fates. As to the incident near to Severodvinsk - it is unclear as to what has happened there, but 5 Rosatom (well, their subsidiery) employees died, most likely from radioactive exposure and there was a small/short time period spike in gamma radioactivity in the nearby Severodvinsk but no tell tale signs of reactor mulfunction (ie no radioactive Iodine). My hypothesis from available reporting is that they have had a chemical explosion of some sort in close proximity to radio-thermal power source they were working on. __________________ Grumpy as always. Last edited by ikalugin; 08-11-19 at 07:22 PM.