Nuclear Power Plants During The World Wide Outbreak.

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Permalink Reply by Birdman on December 23, 2008 at 5:54pm

thats not to much of a problem if there are any problems it shuts down automaticly granted at some point it might just blow up or not never relly no also depemds on the bilding what kind of state it is in.

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Permalink Reply by Robert on December 25, 2008 at 5:45pm

Both nuclear power plants and high-level nuclear waste facilities rely on a constantly replenished supply of cold water to keep them cool. If this water was cutoff during an outbreak or other kind of emergency the water would slowly get hotter and start to evaporate then boil away. When the water is gone some of the reactors might have emergency shutdown procedures but the nuclear waste is gonna blow sky high and contaminate large areas with radioactive waste. Moving to the southern hemisphere is only delaying the inevitable. Once the radioactive waste hits the upper atmosphere it'll spread worldwide. Granted some places would get a lot less contamination than others but you're not going to avoid it altogether.

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Permalink Reply by emclean on January 23, 2009 at 8:46am

and you are the first to think of seneros where the water supply gets cut off, so there are no emergency plans for it, no automated safetys? the planst are desined to fail safe.
also the plants eould not expload, they would melt through there cantanement vessles, and expose teh radation to the outside. not good, but a far cry from a mushroom cloud

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Permalink Reply by Caity Cat on December 31, 2008 at 6:19am

Yay, everyone come to Australia and hang out with me! : D, but Antarctica wouldn't be good because all the wind cycles down there.

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Permalink Reply by dk_zombie on March 23, 2009 at 8:42pm

its not that the machines that make the power need cooling from the water its that the radioactive waste they create needs cooling thats what would cause all the problems there would be about ten days until the emergency fuel runs out and the waste starts heating up then boom

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