Distant historians will not be kind to this era.
FAKE NEWS.....anybody with any sense knew fuel melted from day 2.
At Chernobyl, workers dug into the room below the reactor, where the uranium melted into, and found black fungus growing. Apparently some fungus can use radiation as an energy source and feed on it.
Those fuel rods are so horribly dangerous! :-(
Get enough of them in one place and things get mighty HOT!
BTW: The workings of a fission reactor are very, very simple, anyone can understand the concepts when they are explained to them.
The trick with fission reactors is making them safe to operate....some old designs were poorly thought out :-/
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It’s good to know the melted material was retained within the containment building.
Nice post. Whether we like it or not...we will need nuclear energy. Glad to hear the containment vessels kept the rods inside. Melted.. wow.
We need to make use of current tech and build nuclear plants.. we should use some of the pipe dream funds to make this a safe technology.
“...theutility will think about how they can be analyzed to determine if they are the former fuel rods.”
You’d think with the world’s experience in analyzing rocks on Mars and the moon that we’d have already developed methods of analysis at a distance using laser or maser excitation and spectroanalysis. Maybe even just firing a bullet at it and analyzing the dust cloud.
Where’s my check from TEPCO for this million-dollar idea?
I predict Godzilla in five years.
Oh, and boy is she gonna be pissed.
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