[TheForge] now Japanese nuke plants OT: POL:

[David E. Smucker]

Bruce

There have to have pumps for flooding anyway -- I have never seen a heavy 
industrial plant that didn't have major portions below ground water level. 
I worked in a plant in Italy where the ground water level was about 1 meter. 
We had a very good "bath tub" foundation and our pumping needs were almost 
nil unless we drilled through the foundation.  This plant site was built on 
what had been "1/2 tidal land" (it was under water 1/2 of the time).  They 
dug ship canals and took the removed soil and raise the remaining land for 
industrial use.

Even in the USA we had plants that the mill sub basements went down 5 levels 
or more.  With good design water is not a issue unless you fill from the top 
such as a Mississippi river flood.

Dave Smucker

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From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:30 PM
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] now Japanese nuke plants OT: POL:

> Then you'd have to use pumps to prevent flooding!  Which is worse?
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David E. Smucker
> <davesmucker at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> It was all about capital cost -- or these units could have been built 
>> below
>> sea level and easy to flood (and destroy) with sea water. I raise a basic
>> question here -- why not build all nuke plants below ground -- other than
>> capital cost?
>>
>> Dave
>>
> -- 
> Bruce
> NJ
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