He’s full of crap.
Chernobyl was a graphite-moderated reactor. The situation was made MUCH worse there when the graphite caught fire. Their plant design lacked a hard containment vessel as western plants have. And their problems were operator-induced.
These plants are right on the seacoast. If they make a decision to flood with seawater, they have plenty of it nearby. Unlike Chernobyl, where they had to airlift sand to smother the fire that resulted.
“Without any electricity, the pumps won’t be able to pump water through the hot reactor cores to cool them.”
Actually sand, lead, steel are much better materials for stopping a chain reaction. Water, once melting of the fuel rods has occurred, simply turns to steam and contributes to the spread of the contamination. Sand, lead on the other hand mix with the molten fuel and help to bring things back below critical mass necessary for a chain reaction to continue.
excellent rebuttal
why can’t the networks hire a guy like you to “assess” the situation instead of picking up all the anti nuke crowd for alarmist crap
I would bet that a few heads will roll over in Japan for not securing the backup diesel generators a little bit better.