Watching the bugs nuke themselves would be funny, I'm just not sure it's worth the mess afterwards.
Lord Joy
"There is no such thing as propaganda." - CCP, probably.
Global Fortune
The French don't trust the ccp hence they reported to the USA directly, otherwise their report will never see the light. Same as the pandemic.
This better not blue ball us like the damn dam did.China Uncensored vlogged a bit about that nuclear plant and there's some comments who was right on target.
I'd rather have the nuke plant blueball us. That's just what we need, a fuckup that global media will use to scare the normies into thinking there's no such thing as safe, reliable nuclear power and we need low energy "green" renewables as our only power sourceThis better not blue ball us like the damn dam did.
This is the most depressing part.hoh great another nation fucking up nuclear so the rest of the world can remain afraid of it and force us into stupid "renewable energies" like fucking windmill and solar.
Nah. A lot of the environmentalists are motivated by the same thing most political actors are: the grift.This is the most depressing part.
Nuclear when done right is the biggest "clean" and environmentally safe power source out there. So many reactors are old and aren't using the newest safety designs/tech that basically make them foolproof outside acts of god.
Stuff like Thorium and miniaturization could be an awesome future. Yet, the big environmentalist lobby are scared shitless it'll be like setting off a warhead in their backyard.
Thing with nuclear is, it’s more expensive than coal, renewables and the current cheapest option of natural gas. It also has a 50 year depreciation schedule which leads to a lack of flexibility compared to 30 year NG plants or 20 year solar plants.This is the most depressing part.
Nuclear when done right is the biggest "clean" and environmentally safe power source out there. So many reactors are old and aren't using the newest safety designs/tech that basically make them foolproof outside acts of god.
Stuff like Thorium and miniaturization could be an awesome future. Yet, the big environmentalist lobby are scared shitless it'll be like setting off a warhead in their backyard.
What's bad is when they decide to pull out a bunch of control rods to bring the power back up, the xenon burns off, and suddenly, the reactor is producing much, much more power than they expected, to the point that the core turns into lava. Modern reactors have very sturdy containment to prevent the fuel from melting through the building when this happens.Sounds to me like they are in a xenon pit. Too much xenon (the noble gas in question) poisons the reaction and it needs to either try to burn it up, which is destabilizing and was part of the sequence of errors that caused Chernobyl, or much safer is to shut the whole shebang down until the xenon isotopes decay in a day or two and the reactor can be restarted again.
This is all assuming the story being told IS the actual story.
*edit* oops! @Drain Todger was already all over this. Welp, so now TWO autists from the farm have validated the science, so it must be right!

One of China's top nuclear scientists and the Vice-President of Harbin Engineering University has died after falling from a building.
Zhang Zhijian, who was the Vice-President of the Chinese Nuclear Society was found dead on Thursday.
South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the university in the capital of Heilongjiang said that police had ruled out homicide as the cause of death after on-site investigations failed to provide further details.
"Harbin Engineering University announces with deep grief that Professor Zhang Zhijian regrettably fell off a building and died at 9.34 am on June 17, 2021," the statement read. "The university expresses deep sorrow over the passing of comrade Zhang Zhijian and deep condolences to his family."
I guess he got some "help" for fell off a building.Fell off a building? That's a funny way of saying he jumped.
Instead, they're just venting xenon, and because they're cheap fucks, they probably won't do fuck-all to replace the fuel. Shutting down and refueling a reactor is a very lengthy process.
Google "china menaced by exploding" and realize that there's nothing in this world that the Chinese can't make explode.