radiation from Japan - do you have KI
It appears the first of the three or four reactors has blown.
At the moment, things are unknown. This plant has ceramic fuel rods. They melt at 2,000 degrees. To do what happened in the picture, I'm assuming the water has been superheated and blew the heat exchanger or pipes.
I don't think it could blow reactor vessel. It will over time pool on the bottom and eat through it. I'm not sure it this design has a ceramic bottom bowl to hold the molten mass of rods, and other gear that is now heating up and melting.
The other three reactors are doomed to fail.
We are going to be dealing with up to 4 point sources of radiation. The total mass of the brew will be at least 15 tons per reactor.
They would be better off blowing a 10MT bomb on the site and deal with a short term problem, then this thing glowing for years and killing 50,000 workers trying to clean it up.
This is as bad as it gets, but could be 4 times worse.
It appears the first of the three or four reactors has blown.
At the moment, things are unknown. This plant has ceramic fuel rods. They melt at 2,000 degrees. To do what happened in the picture, I'm assuming the water has been superheated and blew the heat exchanger or pipes.
I don't think it could blow reactor vessel. It will over time pool on the bottom and eat through it. I'm not sure it this design has a ceramic bottom bowl to hold the molten mass of rods, and other gear that is now heating up and melting.
The other three reactors are doomed to fail.
We are going to be dealing with up to 4 point sources of radiation. The total mass of the brew will be at least 15 tons per reactor.
They would be better off blowing a 10MT bomb on the site and deal with a short term problem, then this thing glowing for years and killing 50,000 workers trying to clean it up.
This is as bad as it gets, but could be 4 times worse.
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