Thread: Nuclear

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

If there are no major earthquakes in Australia to threaten the storage of dangerous nuclear wastes, how come this earthquake in Darwin today cracked walls?

Tsunami all-clear after magnitude-7.2 earthquake shakes Darwin
Darwin CBD buildings evacuated after magnitude-7.2 earthquake in Banda Sea - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The quake was 200k down and 700k north of Darwin and as such It bears NO threat whatsoever to a Modern Nuclear plant.

Hopefully he doesnt teach geography
Incidently we have had a number of 7.0+ earthquakes close to our Mills, i cant stand up types, nil damage as they are engineered to take it. They are also designed to shut down automatically in such an event, so no biggie

Bet its not designed to survive a nearby magnitude 8 :-) That would be an expensive design.

Originally Posted by AndyG

An addendum
I work in the Oil Palm industry in png, no orang-utans or Sumatran tigers are harmed, we preserve hcv (high carbon value) forests, we have an active engagement with the community providing jobs, power, water, roads, schools, clinics etc, but all oil palm is evil.

Don't they have to clear the animals out before planting the palms (I suspect there are no orangs or tigers in PNG) but others, and also is palm oil evil if it's made into bio-diesel?

As I understand it, if an earthquake is dangerous depends on if it is vertical or horizontal. Horizontal doesn't normally cause big problems, just shaking. Vertical underwater causes tsunamis. I saw Phuket and Pi Pi island after that one. Everything was stripped bare. If we had a vertical 7.0 here it would be chaos. I hope it never happens.

So, there were 32 earthquakes in the world today and 26 of them were in our region. Maybe Australia is not as dormant and stable a place to store dangerous nuclear wastes as we assume, hey?
AndyG, you were surrounded, are you used to a whole lotta shaking going on up in PNG?

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Originally Posted by speleomike

Bet its not designed to survive a nearby magnitude 8 :-) That would be an expensive design.

Managed a 7.8 ok, but that did the residential areas no good