In Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List > Just in case anybody wanted to pretend that the Fukushima disaster is > behind us; here is this piece of bad news, based on recent telemetry using > muon detectors for imaging the reactor vessels. The core of reactor units 1 > appears to have melted through both the reactor itself and the outer > containment structure. This is also the likely situation for units 2 and 3 > as well. A total meltdown is not a good scenario – and that is a huge > understatement.
I disagree. Assuming the above is true, and it probably is, that would be WONDERFUL news. In a water cooled reactor, the sort that is used everywhere ( except for Chernobyl and other reactors in the former USSR which used graphite) a core meltdown is as bad a disaster as it gets, and having the fourth largest earthquake ever recorded right under the plant caused billions of dollars of damage, but Fukushima killed NOBODY. So apparently the worst that can happen to a water cooled nuclear power reactor is bad but not all that bad. The death toll from the huge earthquake was 20,000, but the death toll from Fukushima was zero. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
