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Originally Posted by Catfish
Four more nuclear plants at stake, one of it short to explosion. The fallout of the first is already poisoning areas further than a hundred kilometers around the explosion (where the evacuations took place). You cannot evacuate densely populated areas - Japan is one big populated area, everywhere.
Now in that second plant they use plutonium. You know the stuff that will kill you with the millionth part of a gram, and a theoretical spoonful enough to kill Great Britain if properly dispersed by wind (cold war study). Most will go down over the pacific if the current winds do not change.
The Tsunami is bad enough, but several (!) cores melting ?! How deep will a runaway reactor core get, through the surface ? China syndrome ?
I guess the heat and energy melting the ground below it will bleed away after some meters, if not the radiation level ?
Greetings,
Catfish
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China Syndrome is still theoretical, no-one has ever witnessed one. I hope that no-one ever does. Worse case scenario it goes down until it hits magma and then gets sucked into the earths core. You can kiss goodbye to farmland in the surrounding area though, for some distance, and no more water either because it'll get into the water table.
I don't think it'll get that far though, well, I hope not, but there's so much conflicting news and reports and theories coming out of Fukushima and the other NPPs at the moment that it's hard to know what to think.
The chaps around here who have more knowledge of NPPs than me...what are the chances of a steam explosion?
