DIYbanter - View Single Post - A Clear Explaination of Exposed Rods At Fukushima Number 4 Reactor

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On 4/6/2011 9:15 PM, lid wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:49:05 -0700 (PDT), ignator
wrote:

This is THE BIGGEST nuclear mess ever. There were over 600,000 spent
fuel rods in the cooling pools above the reactors. Several of those
pools are reported cracked and have lost cooling water as per the
video.

Further, I believe they blew the containment cap off of reactor number
three and are covering this fact up.
Dave

sorry to burst your paranoid bubble, but this is NOT chernobyl on
steroids no matter what you say, the comparison of the mass of fuel rods
to the mass of fissile material in BigBoy is meaningless and misleading
both, and you do nobody any great service by foaming at the mouth over
it - it is serious, it is even more serious to those that are close, but
it will not explode in a thermonuclear event even if it all melts and
all goes into one huge pool - it can contaminate a large area, but not
like Chernobyl, and it can and probably will still kill someone or two,
and it is a great wakeup call on the dangers of nuclear energy and why
we really don't want it. but saying it's worse than it is will do no
good, and it will in fact do harm.