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Why can't we use a fuel/air bomb offshore to create another tidalwave to swamp the plant and fill the cores?
Let me rephrase what I was suggesting. I am not talking about recreating the whole tidal wave. Just one close enough to the plant, to flood the area, thus refilling the cooling pools and the reactor buildings.
Let me rephrase what I was suggesting. I am not talking about recreating the whole tidal wave. Just one close enough to the plant, to flood the area, thus refilling the cooling pools and the reactor buildings.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It would be very expensive even to try and it wont be big enough. Even if we could do it, it would create a tidal wave 360 degrees around it so it would hit oter areas too. Also they would have to evacuate everybody again so nobody dies, which is very hard, and you cannot know what other effects a second wave might have on the reactors.
- oldprofLv 71 decade ago
For another question in Answers, I calculated the energy behind the Japan tsunami. Just a rough estimate making some (reasonable?) assumptions. But the answer was that there was enough energy in the first instance, when the ocean bottom dropped, to send a continuously thrusting 10,000 kg rocketship to the Sun and back over 200 times. [See source.]
That's a lot of energy because that was a lot of water that suddenly changed its gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy that resulted in the waves and surges. Even our most powerful H-bombs come no where close to developing that kind of energy.
Source(s): For grins, you can do your own calculation. I assumed a volume of sea water 200 km^2 X 1 km deep, dropping h = 5 m when the Pacific plate subsided under the Asian plate. The change in GPE is dGPE = mgh = rho V g h, where rho is sea water density, V = 200 km^3 is the volume of water, and h = 5 m is the drop. Without losses, all the dGPE = KE, the resulting kinetic energy that created the waves and surges. It's easy math, but the results will drive home just how much energy there is when tsunamis occur. - SalingerLv 41 decade ago
Seriously? Even if it would work, it is too uncontrollable. To many possible negative outcomes, not to mention the additional collateral damage to the surrounding area. Keep trying though.
- Randy PLv 71 decade ago
An earthquake releases many orders of magnitude more energy than we could achieve with a bomb.
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