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Doesn't de-pressurizing lead to boiling? E.g. if the article was imprecise, then in implying that it was heat alone which pumps failed to carry away that caused the boiling?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Sep 12th, 2006 at 05:58:51 PM EST
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I believe (I am not sure) that what they did was dumping some of the hot cooling water into the torus to reduce the amount of heat and lower the pressure inside the containment, to avoid weakening of the containment. I can't see how this would cause extra boiling.

The reactor in question is a BWR, so there is always boiling going on in the reactor, but as 4 of 8 cooling pumps were online this should not have reduced the water level inside the reactor.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Sep 13th, 2006 at 11:51:05 AM EST
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