Spent fuel pool

On 11 March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami occurred off the east coast of Japan. The tsunami resulted in extensive flooding along the east coast of Japan. Located near the towns of Ōkuma and Futaba on the east coast of Japan the Tokyo Electronic Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) sustained substantial damage. The FDNPP consists of six individual nuclear power reactors. Planned maintenance was being performed on reactors 4, 5 and 6. Reactors 1, 2 and 3 automatically SCRAMed following the earthquake due to input signals received from their Safety System. Initially the remaining decay heat from the nuclear reactors and their spent fuel storage pools was sufficiently maintained by their Emergency Power Generator’s (EPG). However, when the 14m high tsunami breeched the sea walls, reactors 1-5 lost their secondary coolant systems due to their EPG’s failing due to flooding. When FDNPP was constructed…

“It’s the first day. How bad can it be?” I asked Amy as we walked into the pool area for the first time with our brand new goggles in hand. “They are not going to make us do anything too terrible since it is our very first day,” Amy replied with confidence. I thought she was probably right; all of the sports that I have ever been apart of have never scared me away within the first week, but this is swim and I knew nothing about swimming. We sat in the circle with all of the experienced…

there is a freshness that surrounds us right from the moment we come out of the pool. However, the feeling is not so pleasant for all because several swimmers are left with a stinging and burning sensation around their eyes, which is quite uncomfortable. In fact, the problem is so common among even the avid swimmers that it is popularly termed as, “swimmer’s eye”. If this rather commonplace trouble is making you apprehensive of receiving Richmond swim lessons or making you too cautious about the…

I decided to become a swim instructor and a lifeguard in order to prevent kids from experiencing the same primordial fear that I felt when I started drowning. As soon as I got my certification I volunteered my time to lifeguarding local meets in case somebody ended up in the same horror that I was in. I also decided to spend my summers lifeguarding and teaching lessons. I worked 40 hours a week at the community center pool in addition to my swim practices, social activities, and other…

I’m sitting on the chair eating Kona Ice, not being able to comprehend that what just happened, almost killed me…. it was my birthday, so I wanted to go to a water park. Eventually everyone started to be tired of swimming. So I went to the wave pool not knowing that no one came with me. The waves hit over and over reiteratively until conclusively it stopped. I didn’t realize that it had bigger waves than any other parks I have been to. After it calmed I grabbed a tube to sit on. The little…

On October 25th I visited a park called Discovery Green for the first time. The park is located downtown in the heart of Houston at 1500 McKinney St. This earth-rooted venue is has lots of space for you to enjoy yourself and is surrounded by lots of big trees. This looks like a fantastic park for families or parents that want to find fun activities for their children. The very unique park has art structure that represents Houston and interesting paintings, in which it gives a nice background for…

Part of being prepared is being experienced in all kinds of different situations because the circumstances Mavericks can be unpredictable. Without knowing how to surf in just normal conditions, one will go nowhere but down with the tons of water if they attempt to surf Mavericks. Most of the big-wave surfers have been surfing since their teens or even before. Jay Moriarity trained for 4 years before he first took on Mavericks at the age of 16 (Cagnoni). He is undoubtedly one of the youngest…

Just off the southern coast of South Carolina is Edisto Beach where you will find Egrets Pointe Townhouses. With South Carolina timeshare resales, you can own a townhouse in this idyllic location and enjoy a fun and relaxing vacation every year at an affordable price. Surrounded by 300 acres of wooded grounds, the resort has offers a wide range or recreational activities, including bike paths, tennis courts, fishing ponds, swimming pools and an 18-hole golf course. The woods are filled with…

Courageous One day when in the summer after sixth grade me and some friends went to tybee beach. Once we got there we set up the umbrella and the chairs, then went in the water. Then I hear this mom crying and screaming and i look out and there is a four year old boy on a bodyboard. So, once we got to the beach we realized how hot it was, it was so hot it burnt our feet. So, we put the umbrella and the chairs and towels down and then we went in the water. We were in the water for a…

Sphero races At the beginning of the school year my teacher got 12 sphero robots, for us kids to use in the classroom. With these robots you can drive them around, paint with them, and also drive them in water. For the beginning few months we just drove the sphero s around and got to know how they worked. But now were getting to the end of the year so we decided that we are going to use the sphero s to race in a kitty pool that our class won from an achevie 3000 contest. Our…