Sky-High Radiation Found in Fukushima Fish

[PamW]

41. Pot calling the kettle black..

It wasn't an attempt to be condescending that prompted the explanations about the PWR design above.

It was an attempt at education. Some here evidently believed that the release of steam from a PWR automatically means a release of radioactivity.

The posts above are an attempt to educate the members of the forum that a PWR has three separate loops, and only one of those loops goes through the reactor and has radioactivity. Another of the loops is the working fluid of the Rankine steam cycle, and it doesn't go through the reactor and is no more radioactive in a nuclear plant than the analogous loop in a fossil plant. This loop is sealed from the environment unless there is an atmospheric dump of steam; i.e. the "venting" in question. The third loop cools the condenser, and normally dumps waste heat to the environment.

If there was any condescension here, it is on the part of the above poster who says, "The extent to which some will go to advocate for nuclear power... " is "really, really sad".

Now who is actually being self-righteous and condescending.

The vast majority of scientists, including over 99% of the physicists / engineers who really understand nuclear power in its finest details; are in complete support of nuclear power. The people that know these systems best are the ones with the most confidence in them.

So belittling those that support nuclear power, even though their knowledge is greater than yours; is the true condescension here.

PamW