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Nuclear reactors that look good, but don’t really work

Nuclear reactor cutaway diagrams companion Nuclear Reaction Justin on December 21, 2009 Thanks to the Boing Boing website, we’ve found these very cool cutaway diagrams of nuclear reactors. They’ve been executed with love and care, and point to a future that was supposed to promise unlimited, clean and safe electricity.

Unfortunately, the diagrams lack the individual reactor designs’ histories. So, here is the handy cut-out-and-keep Nuclear Reaction nuclear reactor cutaway diagrams companion……. (just 4 listeed here – check their website for All of them – Christina Macpherson)

5. Grand Gulf, US
Two reactors were planned but only one was built, opening in 1982 but not reaching full operating capacity until 1985. The second reactor was cancelled due to the massive construction costs and its concrete containment building still stands on the site. The completed reactor is thee subject of the paper ‘Excess infant mortality after nuclear plant startup in rural Mississippi’.

6. Guangdong Nuclear Power Plant, China
Opened in 1993 and 1994, the two reactors at China’s Daya Bay produced 37.7 tonnes of nuclear waste in 2008 alone.

7. Oskarshamn, Sweden
The 1 and 2 reactors at Oskarshamn are of an indentical design to the one that came dangerously close to a meltdown at Sweden’s Forsmark reactor in 2006.

8. Snupps: Standardized Nuclear Unit Power Plant System, US
Designed for four US utility companies but built by only two (at Callaway and Wolf Creek), the Snupps design was also the basis for Sizewell B, the last reactor to be built in the UK. The nine offshore wind farms currently being proposed for the UK have a combined electricity output of 21 Snupps.

Nuclear reactor cutaway diagrams companion – Nuclear Reaction – A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power

December 22, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive