J. Clarke wrote:
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and explosions vent UPwards. The heavy fuel rods will be under
water.
I doubt they would be scattered much,if at all.

So how many lives are you willing to stake on that doubt?
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It's the problem hallerb has w/ his exaggerated proposed scenario--it
just isn't a reasonable physical conclusion to what would happen given
the initiating event.

Certainly not the "thousands of miles" idea--it would surely make a mess
of the building, some of the support structure and perhaps scatter a few
fission products around the site, but doing much more than that would be
really, really tough to get to happen. Nothing nuclear is even
physically possible; nothing thermal is beyond remote. Loss of
shielding directly over the storage pool would require simply staying
away w/o proper protection if the water pool were lowered.

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