Alright friends, the second speaker also our nuclear technology lecturer gave an eye opening talk. He made everyone present on that day to be fascinated by the beauty behind nuclear technology. Thank you Mr. Azrudi.
The introduction part was somehow rather similar with the previous speaker. Both of them spoke on the depleting energy source of the world and the distribution of energy in related fields. One interesting point I noted during his talk was, from the 100% energy generated, only 42.8% is used by us! The rest? yes, the rest just lost to the surrounding! I hope you know now, why is it getting hot in Malaysia, literally why the world gets hotter. In addition to that more and more greenhouse gasses (GHG) are been released to the surrounding. This worsen the situation more. now please think about this. How can we meet the escalting demandof power without releasing more GHG into the atmosphere?
Absolutely, the answer is by adopting any kind of green energy source. One of them is Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Here the speaker stressed what does GREEN means? It means alternative energy that can bring a solution to global warming problem and also can sustain its ability to preserve the environment. I am very confident, NPP able to do it without any flaws.
Talking about flaws, relates our interest into safety area present in operating a NPP. Basically a NPP has 3 or 4 or 5 terrain safety system. Each layer starting from fuel pallets till the containment chamber are protect well enough to prevent any sort of problems. As I mentioned earlier in the reactor technology posts, current reactors safety system are designed based on passive safety concepts. Where it is dependent on natural forces such as natural convection, stored energy in a spring, gravity and etc with minimal dependent on humans. If anything goes wrong in a NPP, one could not say, " Oh, I'm sorry. Gravity didn't work well this morning, that's why the control rods got stuck!" It will be a total absurd if one says that, because natural forces occurs naturally without any breaks in between!
In simple words, safety inside NPP has :
NO RELIANCE on human action!
NO RELIANCE on outside power!
NO RELIANCE on active mechanical equipment!
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| Courtesy of Mr.Azrudi Mustapha, TNB |
That's all guys for today. More posts on safety will be coming soon. Don't miss it!
from the lecture, i'm really impressed by the passive safety concept available in nuclear reactor........the fact that it depended on the natural forces, for instance; gravity, that will never fail......which means that the safety measure in the nuclear reactor fail-proof..... which will make nuclear power less frightening.........
ReplyDeletemohd nor faris bin mohd nordin(me084035)
reese_rico@yahoo.com
Hello,
ReplyDeleteYes it was a very good lecture. And yes I am really frustrated that the surrounding temperature in Malaysia is increasing. It is really hot these days. Indeed the increase of GHG is causing this, and using nuclear will reduce GHG emissions greatly, leading to a cleaner environment in the long run. However the question is , will it be too late before we can see the long term results of nuclear, as humans are getting more and more greedy and globalisation goes over the top? Ponder upon this.
JASON FRANCIS
jason_spyboy@yahoo.com
A very good lecture i can say. It made me realize that electric vehicle is not green at all unless we are using NPP.
ReplyDeleteAidil Azlan bin Mohd Fitri
ME083526
aidil.azlan@yahoo.com
yes,very interesting lecture!.The "greenhouse effect" is a complicated process by which the earth is becoming progressively warmer.Since the time taken of building the nuclear power plant is too long,what we can do now is stopping or slowing deforestation. Am i right?.sorry if wrong.
ReplyDeletename: Mohamad `Adif Bin Jemarin
email: ucukadif@yahoo.com
hi adif, You are right too. But how to develop some regions without deforestation? That's what many developing countries argue when UN asked them to stop deforestation. They said they have the rights to be a developed country and they will find an alternative way to reduce GHG gases.
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ReplyDeleteSeriously it was really good lecture. But the only thing i really frustrated is that just imagine how different the world would be today if 40 years ago we had replace all fossil fuels with nuclear power. We wouldn't be at war in the middle east. There would no be power shortages. Our electric bill would be a fraction of what is it. We would all be driving cars powered by hydrogen and nobody would be worrying about global warming.
Amreet Raj Singh
ME083528
amreet90@hotmail.com
would you let them built NPP behind your house?
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