The group may find it interesting to review the history of
steam explosions/disasters.

Of course, nuclear plants are steam plants but heated by the
reactor rather than coal, but downstream from the reactor
the problems/challanges are the same. It is sobering to
realize just how many of today's problems are due to
carelessness in applying old technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_explosion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Ne...team_explosion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boiler_explosions
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...D95F44 8684F9
http://www.google.com/search?q=histo...&ved=0COIBEKsE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_explosion
http://trade-metal.com/steam-explosi...orp-p6773.html
http://www.engineeringexpert.net/Eng...team-explosion
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...9/ai_94666562/



some nuclear specific steam explosion articles
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/serv...ifs=yes&ref=no
http://stresa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/sarne...ic/fzk/ECO.pdf



-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).