On 01/06/10 17:50, Huge wrote:
On 2010-06-01, Tim wrote:

This was also the place, where a story regailed in the tea room, told
first hand by a man who had the job of making safe some sort fo pump
that used liquid sodium inside (I have no idea what it was for).

Sodium cooled uclear reactor?

Don't think so - they didn't do nooclear there...

Anyway, the usual route (Harlow was it?) was too expensive. So they
decided to melt the sodium and discharge it via a pipe under oil. That
didn't go well apparantly and they ended up with a litre of liquid
sodium on the floor burning away, followed by trying to explain to the
nice firemen that hosing it down with water was a bad idea (almost as
bad as their original idea!). In the end they dumped a load of sand on
it and let it sort itself out...

You might like this;

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives..._this_time.php


"it makes asbestos burn" - holy ****...

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Tim Watts

Hung parliament? Rather have a hanged parliament.