Reply To: Earthquake v. Powerplants

[zapkitty]

Brian H wrote: Zapster;
Ya, the C11 is even harder to get to than the decaborane plasma which implodes and congeals as soon as you break into the vacuum chamber. Oh, well, I s’pose you could lick the cathodes! After checking to make sure they weren’t hot or “hot” (receiving lotsa KV from the the caps).

zapkitty, indeed!

Well, I was thinking of post-shutdown radiation worries of a jittery public, but the fuel has a chance of being toxic as well if you broke into the chamber and stuck your head in… but there’s no particular reason for the disassociated fuel gas to reassemble itself as decaborane, is there? From the plating issue Lerner mentioned I suspect you’d mostly have solid B11, free H2, and some hydrogen boranes…

Hmmm… if someone took an axe to an active FF, wouldn’t the disassociated fuel gas still just plate out as B11 and a somewhat randomized collection of boranes as the air hit it?…