Posted on 05/15/2012 10:51:30 AM PDT by yank in the UK
Unit 2 we now know completely liquified. We’ve never seen this before in the history of nuclear power. A 100% liquification of a uranium core.
(Excerpt) Read more at enenews.com ...
if we pumped about a million gallons of freon on that sucker...oh wait...
No election to be held in November./s
They won't be able to re start the reactor until at least the end of the year.
Is this being reported by a Left-Wing Alarmist rag ?
However what would the movie be called if it were to be made in Japan?
South Atrantic Syndrome.
If you bored straight down, you'd burst through the sea floor over 16,000 feet down.
You just have to wait long enough, eventually everyone will be dead.
Not sure if this GE design incorporates a Boron "catch pan" at the bottom of the containment vessel. Boron will "poison" the reaction and quench it so that the core will stop melting itself. Properly designed Boron catch pans will contain an entire melted core until it solidifies, and will keep it immobile and stable.
This sounds to me like a transient event that is no longer a threat.
FROM THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THE LINK:
think it means it’s no longer in the corium ‘blob’ state but capable of traveling into the earth’s mantle in a stream-like state; which is much worse than any previous worst case scenario. There will be no remediation possible; resulting in radiological contamination of underground water-ways (interacting ocean and fresh-water aquifers) within this entire region, for hundreds-of-thousands of years.
Given the amount of energy needed to maintain a liquified condition without significant surface cooling is unusual. Classical thermodynamics has left the building…
So has this liquified core melted down to below sea level?
That would make the situation “more complicated”.
“You just have to wait long enough, eventually everyone will be dead.”
That’s what J.M. Keynes thought. And it’s true, in that all that lives must die. But human beings are known to reproduce themselves, through a highly entertaining and interesting process about which I won’t go into details. When that eventuality comes there will be new people who will be alive. One of the points of civilization is to outlast the current generation.
How does Michio Kaku know this to be fact?
—They are using “liquified” — in the past tense. Does that not mean that it liquified, and is now solid again? —
I think they are using it in the sense of “The house burned down.”
I read that post. When knowledgeable physicists are worried, there’s a problem.
Thank you! I’ll watch it when I get home (not able to watch videos at work).
That plant has been fukushima’d over.
OK, now that REALLY sounds alarming.
I must confess that I am more than a little concerned that this thing could go all “1950’s doomsday movie” on us.
Seeing as the world’s civilization is going through social and economic meltdown as I write this, I suppose this would complete the picture. ;-)
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