Guided tour at Forsmark nuclear power plant

Mer information om Formarks kärnkraftverk får du på www.vattenfall.se/sv/forsmark.htm.

[@mokapot7706]

Wonderful. Thanks for the subtitles.

[@NinoNiemanThe1st]

Great explanation. I trust the Swedes to safely run a nuclear power plant, with all the safety processes required. They are a very thorough, safe and diligent culture (remember how Saab and Volvo led the world in car safety, years before it became evident elsewhere). I hope they maintain that culture these days though given the pressures inherent in their massively changing society.

[@christophernelson272]

we’ll see if that remains if the mass immigration continues

[@Tuppoo94]

Nice! I hope Finland can also build more nuclear power, safety first of course.

[@framling4692]

We in have 5 powerplants (:

[@haroldfernandez3317]

Good and interesting 👍

[@jessvagnar4957]

Do your reactors really use a BWR with only primary and secondary loops? I'm surprised there isn't a third...

[@cytrynowy_melon6604]

Make 5 loops then, power plant will be so expensive that nuclear will be ditched in favor of solar.

[@Pow3llMorgan]

BWRs usually only have a primary loop and a separate condensing cooling loop. The steam that is generated in the reactor and the steam drums is the steam that goes to the turbine.

[@michaelfasher]

The most popular type of reactor is a pressurised water reactors which the water in the reactors pressure vessel stays liquid and goes through pipes to steam generators where the heat gets exchanged with water going around the second loop turning it to steam where it goes through a turbine then gets condensed by cooling in a lake or ocean or large river inlet which is the third loop. In Palo Alto Arizona they use treated waste water from a sewage treatment plant. PWR were originally developed as submarine reactors. In 1952 the Experimental Boiling Water Reactor was developed as a simplified reactor where the water boils in the pressure vessel and leaves as steam simplifying the first two loops into one. Boiling Water Reactors are now the second most popular reactor and are made by GE Hitachi.

[@phorzer32]

Is the water above the reactor top glowing?

[@zolikoff]

No, there are floodlights in the water illuminating it, that is what you see. Otherwise workers couldn't see anything under the water.

[@Pow3llMorgan]

No. But if the reactor vessel head had been off, you might have been able to see some faint blue glow from Cherenkov radiation.

[@zolikoff]

@@Pow3llMorgan You can definitely see that coming off the spent fuel elements during a refueling.

[@arizonatsunami]

Nuclear power got such a bad rap after Fukushima.

[@peaveyst7]

and after kryshtym, kursk and... oh yeah CHERNOBYL!!! the process itself is safe but the safety is only as good as the human who watched over it.

[@arvalb0]

@@peaveyst7 all of these accidents have something in common, its from the soviet union, peopel who uses chernobyl as proof nuclear power is bad, is just as using hitler to prove germany is bad

[@lukasnajah6945]

kommer forsmark stänga ner några reactorer

[@tntfreddan3138]

Är la klart om fan dom kommer göra det? I alla fall om Isabella Lövin får som hon vill. Konstigt att Riksdagens minsta parti har störst makt i hela landet.

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

Nej.

[@steelpanther88]

07:13 windows xp controlling nuclear plant, I hope not xD

[@fromtopgun3560]

I didn’t like this tour because I unfortunately don’t know whatever language that was so I was constantly looking at the subtitles instead of the screen.

[@leecloth8460]

Jesus Loved You are a fucking idiot

[@tntfreddan3138]

Potato...

[@joacimnieminen]

You didn't miss anything, just the usual "nuclear is safe" blaa blaaa blaaaaa

[@zapfanzapfan]

Now you know how much of the world feels about English ;-)

[@arvalb0]

@@joacimnieminen but it is safe, the safest energi source