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Uncertainty surrounds Japan's nuclear picture. 12 March 2011Last updated at 13:44 By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News Police are trying to clear residents from the evacuation zone around the Fukushima plant The word "meltdown" goes to the heart of the big nuclear question - is nuclear power safe?
The term is associated in the public mind with the two most notorious accidents in recent memory - Three Mile Island, in the US, in 1979, and Chernobyl, in Ukraine, seven years later. You can think of the core of a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), such as the ones at Fukushima Daiichi, as a massive version of the electrical element you may have in your kettle. It sits there, immersed in water, getting very hot. The water cools it, and also carries the heat away - usually as steam - so it can be used to turn turbines and generate electricity. A Conversation with My Dad, a Nuclear Engineer, about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster in Japan.
Update: Improved audio soon to be available for all 4 interviews.
Please note that in the first interview my voice sounds strange because I used really bad recording software (free off the internet) that sped up my voice slightly and made it sound higher-pitched. I am not sure how to fix this, but please do not judge my voice until you have listened to the follow-up interviews. Yes, I have a high-pitched voice, but it’s not quite as bad as in the first interview. If my voice bothers you, please read the transcripts. Thanks! My dad does not usually swear. My dad- Commander Mark L. I hope to transcribe this conversation later, but for now here is the audio recording: Update: Transcription after the jump. Nuclear energy 101: Inside the "black box" of power plants. This morning, I got an email from a BoingBoing reader, who is one of the many people worried about the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan.
In one sentence, he managed to get right to heart of a big problem lurking behind the headlines today: "The extent of my knowledge on nuclear power plants is pretty much limited to what I've seen on The Simpsons". For the vast majority of people, nuclear power is a black box technology. Radioactive stuff goes in. Electricity (and nuclear waste) comes out. Somewhere in there, we're aware that explosions and meltdowns can happen.
As I write this, it's still not clear how bad, or how big, the problems at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant will be. At a basic level, nuclear energy isn't all that different from fossil fuel energy. A fission reaction is a lot like a table filled with Jenga games, each stack of blocks standing close to another stack. Every time one of those atoms breaks apart, it releases a little heat.