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2005-08-21 China-Japan-Koreas

Nkors Firing Up Reactor.....Wotta Surprise.

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Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-08-21 06:23|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...Why do they need a boiler to fire up a nuclear reactor?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-08-21 18:35|| 2005-08-21 18:35|| Front Page Top

#2 It's the UPS

Posted by Mona Gorilla 2005-08-21 20:15|| 2005-08-21 20:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Whipping up a batch of kimche?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-08-21 20:33|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-08-21 20:33|| Front Page Top

#4 "Why do they need a boiler to fire up a nuclear reactor?"

Well, when you fire up any major "Engine" you usualy have a standby power souece both to provide the syart-up power, and as a safety measure in case the mains fail at a disastrous point when you REALLY need to run pumps, fans, etc. (Think three mile island when the water pumps were not running)

I would suspect that the "Boiler" mentioned provides just such standby power.

I was Navy, we used shore power whenever we first started the ship's boilers, and had standby generators in case of power failure or no shore power available.

Takes Juice to run fuel and water pumps, burners, flue fans, etc.

After startup we could run our own turbine-generators to supply all the power we needed, and then disconnected from shore, and shut down the standby gensets (Diesel in our case)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-08-21 21:46|| 2005-08-21 21:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Memo to self
"Spellcheck dammit"

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-08-21 21:48|| 2005-08-21 21:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe Kimmie noticed that China's locale for it and Russia's MILEX "Peace Mission 2005" is closer to South Korea than North Korea - you know, China working to stop the North.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-08-21 23:02|| 2005-08-21 23:02|| Front Page Top

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