Monday, May 14, 2012

Fuku Unit #2 100% liquification of uranium core — “We’ve never seen this before..."

Nice..  Uncharted territory.  Unchecked Nuclear Power, will you ever stop being so much fun?  ENews.  Excerpts:

*UPDATED* ORIGINAL PRESENTATION HERE: Professor Shocked: "The core completely liquefied -- There's nothing left -- There's no hook -- There's no remaining collapsed core" (VIDEO)

Really short post..  Read comments for further hilariousness..  Here's my favorite!

..think it means it's no longer in the corium 'blob' state but capable of traveling into the earth's mantle in a stream-like state; which is much worse than any previous worst case scenario. There will be no remediation possible; resulting in radiological contamination of underground water-ways (interacting ocean and fresh-water aquifers) within this entire region, for hundreds-of-thousands of years.



Given the amount of energy needed to maintain a liquefied condition without significant surface cooling is unusual. Classical thermodynamics has left the building…

I guess things will be super exciting by the time MSM starts reporting this again..

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