Zero Tolerance wrote:
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:24:01 +0100, "Norman Wells"
wrote:

Then they're all unbelievably stupid, regardless of their qualifications.
Where on earth did they get the idea to which the words China Syndrome are
meant to relate? What were those words meant to convey?

Maybe 'china' as in "fragile container, easily broken, resulting in
possibly disastrous loss of contents" ?

No, my understanding is that in a nuclear core melt down there's nothing to
stop it burning its way through through the planet and popping out the other
side (which of course gravity wouldn't allow). Do that from the US, and you
end up in China (except you wouldn't, it would be the middle of the Indian Ocean.



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