From: Georgi Guninski <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
>Remember the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the causes for it?
Sure, the fools put a nuclear reactor in a location susceptible to both
earthquakes and tsunamis...and then they forgot to provide for cooling the core
to prevent meltdown in case they had to 'scram' the reaction.
(A nuclear reactor ordinarily has a rather large population of 'radioactive
daughter elements' that continue to decay and emit heat for hours and days
after the neutron-absorbing control rods are put back into place. This
continued heat production has the ability, for a few hours, to melt down the
core unless cooling water continues to flow. In an emergency like Fukushima,
they needed to provide for such continued water flow for hours, lest the core
melt down. They didn't. It did.)
Jim Bell
