Another tsunami could come up and dredge all that out to the ocean and currents will drag it over to the west coast of NA.
Tsnuami is a japanese word for a reason. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > This is silly. The fourth reactor is not badly damaged. The fuel rods will > be removed from it soon. Even if another earthquake of the same magnitude > occurs the building will not collapse. The reactor buildings were not > seriously damaged by earthquake itself. Even if they had been at epicenter, > if they had not been running, they would not have been seriously damaged. > The major damage was caused by a chain of events: > > The earthquake triggered a tsunami. > > The tsunami destroyed the auxiliary generators and generator fuel supplies. > > After the reactor SCRAM the reactor cores could not be kept cool. > > The hot reactor cores melted down, bringing the rods closer together, and > intensifying the heat. > > The intense heat fractured the water into free hydrogen and oxygen. The > recombination explosion destroyed the plant buildings. > > So, if the reactors had not been running there would be no disaster. Or, > if the auxiliary generators and fuel supplies had been protected from the > tsunami, which would not have been difficult. Or, if someone had noticed > the generator early in the crisis ran out of fuel at night. (It is > understandable that they did not notice, given the chaos and danger.) A > long chain of unfortunate events caused this disaster. Any one of them > might have been prevented. The same is true of many other major disasters, > such as the Titanic and the crash of the DC-10 in June 1972. (See the book > "Destination Disaster.") > > Furthermore, the notion that we would have to evacuate all of Japan or the > U.S. West Coast is preposterous. The effects of the Fukushima disaster are > bad enough already. We don't need this kind of hysteria making them seem > even worse than they are. > > - Jed > >
