CarolRawley Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Watch This!http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a91_1275352758You can download the video, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolRawley Posted September 5, 2011 Author Share Posted September 5, 2011 Is so cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sordid Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Except that it's not a reactor, just a cooling tower. > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdfox Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Yeah, the reactors themselves aren't demolished; they're deconstructed, so that the various levels of radioactive waste can be separated out from the non-radioactive materials, and each of them can be disposed of properly.Hell, that might not even be a nuclear reactor (I say having not yet watched the video); I've seen plenty of coal-fired plants that use similar cooling towers, and plenty of nuke plants that don't use any cooling towers. Honestly, the reason those sorts of towers are associated with nuclear power in people's minds is all the images of the ones at Three Mile Island that were flashed all over the news in 1979, because they were more exciting than pictures of the actual reactor buildings, which look like... well, like big ugly industrial buildings.If you want to see what the reactor building at a nuke plant looks like, try looking up images of Fukushima Daiichi *before* the earthquake; that's pretty typical of the design of a reactor building for a boiling-water reactor (which is the most common type of power plant reactor out there). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolRawley Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 Sorry about it being a cooling tower, but it is from a nuclear power plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellome118 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 can someone put this on youtube?I can't veiw it on my mobile... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolRawley Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 its on liveleak, youtube, and i'll attach a downloaded copy to the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostiken Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Jesus, how the hell do they do that? How'd they know they needed those vertical bits, the big 'gap' cut in the side... more importantly, how do I get that job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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