The Walking Dead on AMC. >> SPOILER ALERT <<

[bryjcom]

Interesting episode. Just curious on how there is still power and running water in the house?

I understand nuclear power and all but can they really keep running and not melting down with nobody monitoring them?

[ChunkyMonkey]

Being in the farm, most likely generator for power and pump. Shane never jumped into the shower - he wouldve jumped out once he realizes its cold water.

[Byte Stryke]

Being in the farm, most likely generator for power and pump. Shane never jumped into the shower - he wouldve jumped out once he realizes its cold water.

Mirror was fogged... I am guessing Propane or electric.

when I lived in KY... the propane tank held an insane amount...

it was only filled once a year.

possibilities.


Oh,
on the Otis thing...

outrunning someone and shooting them in the leg, after they saved you TWICE so your crippled-ass can escape.... weak


No character, but then, we already knew that when he was banging his partners wife.

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

Interesting episode. Just curious on how there is still power and running water in the house?

I understand nuclear power and all but can they really keep running and not melting down with nobody monitoring them?

well its a old farm I'm sure it has a well and maybe they have solar power with batterys and posibly a windmilland farmers always have a ton of diesel and gasoline as well, but most likly its just a TV show and they gave the house power so they ould opperate on the kid and it also makes better tv

[Hoosier]

I understand nuclear power and all but can they really keep running and not melting down with nobody monitoring them?

Nope. I believe the power would fail within hours. The power generating stations may attempt to stay online, but the power grid itself is a delicate beast. Imagine the number of car wrecks that would be going on, it wouldn't take long for a power pole to get hit and fail. With no one there to re-route power demands lines there would be a rapid cascade failure.

Once the nuclear plants are no longer able to send their power into the grid they would automatically scram. Once grid power fails the nuke plants would be left with just the emergency generators to run the pumps. The primary reactor would have scram'd, so the mediation rods would be lowered and that reaction would stop. Once the diesel in the emergency generators run out, the pumps that feed water into the spent fuel cooling pools would stop. At that point the water would begin to boil off, and we'd see steam explosions similar to what happened at Fukishima. Eventually you'd have a couple tons of highly enriched uranium exposed to atmosphere.

There are 65 nuclear site in the US running 100 reactors.