New Clear Energy

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I just remembered Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board got their ISO 9001:2015 certification about 2 months ago and are now bidding for the construction of the Nuclear Power Plants. They are promising an efficient and clean means of production. As a very optimistic and happy chap, I couldn’t help but think of all the tragedies associated with nuclear energy.

Sure there are Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nimeshiba and any other shima to come up in the future, but nothing will ever come as close to Chernobyl.
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This, as well as all the shuttle disasters, can be well linked to managers in vary tiers.
Let’s recap what happened:
A board that has nothing to do with nuclear energy asks for a safety test from an already live reactor. A guy in a senior position pops up to remind the workers he can shoot his cum the farthest and goes ahead to demand the test be done at 30mW to save on coolant water. Why? It would please massa and he’ll get a higher job. Two engineers kept on complaining that it was pushing it to the limit. The official manual suggested the limits for the test to be done at 700 - 1000 mW, what would go wrong with testing it at 30 mW? As it were, the engineers were forced to reduce the power.
The way this reactor worked, was that control rods were lifted to the surface first, then power was switched from the reactor to the diesel generator. What they didn’t know, was that huko chini, a storm was brewing. Xenon and other gases combined with steam kept the reactors running. Noticing this, and also the fact that the coolant was beyond anyone’s control, the guys at the control switched the az-5, which would return the control rods into their spots, thus forcing the reactions to slow down. This was bad because the graphite tips on the control rods were also used to speed up nuclear fission. Guess what happened? (10 marks)
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The uranium rods couldn’t handle the building up pressure and 50 of them burnt through.
Results: 70,000 people got infected, 30 died. And the place isn’t safe to stay there unprotected for 20, 000 years.

Initially, people were mad at the two engineers who initiated the tests until they learnt that they were following unconventional orders from their boss, Dyatlov. Now people got mad at him until new evidence revealed that the facility didn’t have the proper manuals. (In some cases, zilikuwa zimeandikiliwa na pen, corrections hapa na pale)
It’s a sad case. It’s even sadder until you realize that there were a bunch of firemen who were on site to try and put out the fire, willingly going into reactor 4, where they might not make it out of. It gets even sadder when you take into account that there were people who volunteered their lives to contain the radiation so that Europe won’t be wiped away.
If you still have some romm for more sadness, check out this movie:http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/v22vodart/13875730/p13875730_v_v8_aa.jpg
It’s a Korean film with one unbelievably compelling scene, a guy sitting outside a door to a reactor that’s melting, he has to open it and swim inside to attempt a shutdown. He makes a call to his ma’ and what follows is just heart wrenching to narrate.

Anyway, I’m hopeful KNEB will reach their 2020 target.

Fun Fact: Most of the workers died while trying to help each other inside the buildings… in total darkness. [SIZE=1]How far can you go for your colleagues?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]As you were.[/SIZE]

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By the time Kenya inajenga nuclear plant, nuclear fusion will already be main stream. This thing will be dragged out hadi ujiulize tunajenga ya nini.

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Seeing that full 10x energy production won’t be achieved until 2030 & the most viable prototype being completed in 2023, wacha tu niguess, itakuwa too expensive for us to try.

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The good thing about fusion is that there are dozens if not hundreds of companies that have already invested in it. And it’s not a single technology.

Each of those companies are trying out different fusion technologies, so far one company has managed to sustain a fusion reaction for about 20 seconds. If we can achieve a critical threshold where enough atoms fuse for long enough, then that reaction will be able to sustain other subsequent reactions and the energy wars will finally be done.

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It generates more energy but for smaller time there is still a problem with storage in order to make it effective it will surely take more time.Am a namna gani we can catch up maybe just maybe.

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Kenya nuclear energy mutangoja hadi 2100 after tumemalisa kulipa deni ya muchina

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We have an active and budding space agency! And they are doing awesome stuff

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Why would I be sad when some individuals sacrifice the lives to save millions of others?

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Because they were going to die anyway. They were already exposed to radiation.

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I saw a documentary animals happily living in Chernobyl. Cats, dogs, birds, foxes, etc.
I forgot much physics but can’t Kenya build small reactors. Just enough to power a city or two. That way we avoid dangers of an accident.

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But how many would do that? At the time they didn’t know it was guaranteed that they were going to die. Watched different documentaries on the disaster and those men stand out in all of them. Sacrifice

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There’s also another account of the entertainers who were hired by the government to quell tension among the citizen in quarantine. They weren’t allowed to talk to the soldiers and workers on site so they didn’t know what they were up against. One of the singers, who still does shows to this date, notice the children’s skins were ghoul-ish and as they performed, teeth fell out.
A day later, they finally figured it out but had been exposed to a lot of radiation already. In his band, they had a talented dancer, a young lady. And in the evening, she danced her very best. She danced until blood oozed from her nose and dripped on the floor. She danced until her cheeks were covered with blood from her years. She had accepted her fate. The singer looked on in shock. Soon there was a blackout and as he stared at the glowing faces of the kids in front of him, he couldn’t handle it. So he sneaked out but was intercepted by a soldier on a look out. They just stared at each other in silence and he went his way.
Sadness comes in when some of them didn’t even have enough hope to fight for their lives

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It’s in the process. The board responsible already worked out the frameworks required and the logistics to be used.

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The little bits that don’t get enough attention.