On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Marc de Piolenc wrote:
> Matthew X wrote:
> > I don't recall a lot of scientific scoffing of the China Syndrome movie
> > when it came out.
You obviously didn't read Nuclear News. It was taken as a major joke
because it didn't have one thing right in it.
> When it first cam
Matthew X wrote:
>
> "If you lose control, the reactor scrams."
>
> I don't recall a lot of scientific scoffing of the China Syndrome movie
> when it came out.
When it first came out, it was considered a plausible scenario. Later,
DOE ran some accident simulations at an instrumented test react
