[Timstone]

Originally posted by Slick:

quote:

---

Originally posted by Timstone:
All who goof around with translation fever: "Thread jackers!!"

quote:

---

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
Very thought Provoking site Timstone, thanks for sharing. The photos seems like they're from some sort of movie, but you see how they were taken (They aren't done by professional Photographers, they look like photos you and I would take, and that adds some integrity to it) Definitely a prominent warning we may be messing with things we're not ready for yet...

Believe me good RD, we're ready for more fusion and fission. The only thing that was an big error in Chernobyl was that the military was in control of the powerplant.
On order of the military the people of the powerplant shut off all the 50 different failsaves. This causes the reactor to produce more energy (thus more electrical output). The darkside of this was the gigantic risc of a meltdown. This meltdown doesn't always have to lead to a mushroom, this was averted by a clever maintenance worker who decided to drop the carbon rods into the reactor. Thus preventing a thermal overload.
The coolant of the reactor was often given the blame of the overload (because the West used water to cool things down and the Russians use a more efficient carbon based liquid (a little bit more dangerous than water, but far more efficient)), but this is not true. It was a plain and simple economic decision which created this accident. Stupid military guys. If those failsaves were in place the plant didn't produce as much output, but at least it would have still been in operation.
"No, we don't fail. So we don't need those pesky failsaves. We are the invincible Red Army." Tss... suckers.

Edit: Typo's, typo's, typo's...

---

No offense, but you should check your sources. None of this is true.

Here's a link to some facts.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.htm

Slick.

---

Oh dear, seems there is a big mystery going on here...
*Twilight Zone theme tune playing in the background.*

Okay, please let me say that this is not something I made up or something. I'm not the only smart person around here.
I'm a mechanical enigneer and thus not a complete stranger to this field of science. I happen to work for a company which designs, produces, installs and maintains rather large industrial pumps, filter installations and generators. My hobby's also include an interest in anything that has to do with fission and fusion. I've read a few (not many) explanations about the Chernobyl accident and a few of them poke of the switching off of the failsaves and the other few spoke of a faulty reactor design. They contradict. Then I saw a nice documentary on Discovery (around 1996 I think (centenial maybe)). That documentary spoke of the failsaves and the alleged coolant. Even when I went to school to study for mechanical enigneer I was taught a few contradictory causes, even the books we had to buy for those classes weren't in agreement. So I ended up with three Versions.
1) Faulty reactor design.
2) Wrong coolant and switching off failsaves.
3) Swithching off failsaves.
Because most of the reports spoke of the failsaves and the military involvement, I thought that this was the cause of the accident.Back in those days I didn't have internet, so there was no way for me to check.

When I received this link I didn't check the internet because I thought I knew the cause.
It wasn't me, it was the one-armed man!