On 10/12/2018 18:52, dpb wrote:
What is the difficulty and the cause of reactor damage at TMI and
Fukushima is loss of effective core cooling and subsequent fuel cladding
failures or fuel melt.Â* But, it's still not an uncontrolled nuclear
reaction event.

Well much as I agree it's not especially dangerous it IS an
uncontrolled nuclear reaction event.

The point being that reactors (Russian Chernobyl style RBMK excepted)
are designed to fail safely under core meltdown conditions. Wrecks the
reactor of course, but doesnt hurt people.

Even the RBMKs are now modified to be a lot safer. Though they do not
still have containment buildings.


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