Thursday, March 11, 2010

Chile Should Build a Nuclear Plant

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That means in the case of Chile, a power plant located in the Maule or Bio Bio regions would be designed to safely withstand an earthquake greater than 9.5-magnitude, which is the strength of a 1960 earthquake, the strongest on record, which flattened the southern city of Valdivia.

For Chile, I think the PGV is very controlled with this type of earthquake. The key is to find some solid rock, and then you can build a nuclear plant, provided you use modern explicit analysis techniques, and the ground velocity time history. Use the old crap and you get a PGA of 2g or something ridiculous.


2 comments:

Harbles said...

Oh bother another 7.2 trembler near Santiago.

Plus an interesting item on The Feb quake.

Harold Asmis said...

Blah, just an aftershock, 35 km deep.

Eventually, I would like some seismic proof that the directivity pulse is directed downward.