From what I know, those zircaloy fuel rods melt at around 1800-2200°C, not 1200°C as suggested in this clip. If I'm not mistaken, the hydrogen explosions might be a direct result of oxidation of those zircaloy rods, thus indicating a partial meltdown simply through the existence of vast amounts of hydrogen.

@Psychologic
If it wasn't irreparable once the fuel rods started melting, it sure as hell turned into scrap the second they inserted sea water.

@Ornthoron
The third containment layer, the reinforced concrete bubble, won't stop the molten sludge made of uranium and zircaloy indefinatly. From what I know, it's a matter of days at best, if enough rods have melted down. If the entire load melts, if a complete meltdown occurs, that's 60+ tons of uranium alone. No concrete or steel will stop that unless it is cooled externally. That's why they use a large area of graphite-concrete composite material as a core-catcher in EPRs and others.

oh, and you might like this about the fissions in japan.

I mean the reactors about to melt down
http://my.firedoglake.com/scarecrow/2011/03/11/two-japanese-nuclear-units-still-at-serious-risk/

>> ^Retroboy:

Honestly, for previous chapters, some of the mods were better. Oblivion suffered from a flaw that if you took your time and went exploring your character ended up being vastly sub-optimal if you didn't play a certain way that used all of your various skills equally so your stats could benefit the most when you levelled up. I made the mistake of enjoying the experience only to get swarmed by horribly imbalanced monsters during the main quest because I deferred it too long.
Some of the user-created mods did great job of correcting this, and one of the more comprehensive of them turned it into one of my favourite games ever - you actually benefitted from taking your time and doing the subquests.
All that being said, the video is stunning and I'll prolly buy a melt-down rig just to play this. But I really do hope they ditch their experience/power-gain be-perfectly-balanced-or-suffer-major-brownouts system in lieu of something like what was created by the user community and was more traditional.


This is the only info available about the leveling system in Skyrim, it was posted by a Bethesda rep:
“Since people are asking, wanted to briefly touch on level scaling. All our games have had some amount of randomness/leveling based on player level. Skyrim‘s is similar to Fallout 3‘s, not Oblivion‘s.”

If you want more info on whats new check this page:
http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-shivering-isles/news/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-new-levelling-system-dual-wielding-non-rubbish-peop
le-octogenarian-swedes/a-20110110162156647080/g-20070105111946415055/c-1#10374492282513319008787750472981395

I plan on waiting for the first patch before i buy this game, Bethesda makes great games but they are always soo big that there's lots of bugs in them. Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall was the worst for bugs, but enjoyable enough to keep you playing!

Honestly, for previous chapters, some of the mods were better. Oblivion suffered from a flaw that if you took your time and went exploring your character ended up being vastly sub-optimal if you didn't play a certain way that used all of your various skills equally so your stats could benefit the most when you levelled up. I made the mistake of enjoying the experience only to get swarmed by horribly imbalanced monsters during the main quest because I deferred it too long.

Some of the user-created mods did great job of correcting this, and one of the more comprehensive of them turned it into one of my favourite games ever - you actually benefitted from taking your time and doing the subquests.

All that being said, the video is stunning and I'll prolly buy a melt-down rig just to play this. But I really do hope they ditch their experience/power-gain be-perfectly-balanced-or-suffer-major-brownouts system in lieu of something like what was created by the user community and was more traditional.

thats a melt down? seemed pretty calm to me.

Dubya graduated from fucking Yale! YALE! Talk about obliterating a veil of class and superiority. It's like, if you can't graduate from Yale... don't even attempt community college. >> ^braindonut:

>> ^shponglefan:
How do people this obviously retarded get into positions of power?

This dude was a judge... Honestly, people like this call into question the validity of an education being any indicator towards intelligence.

>> ^shponglefan:

How do people this obviously retarded get into positions of power?


Sad to say, voted in by the people of the same wavelength?

>> ^shponglefan:

How do people this obviously retarded get into positions of power?


This dude was a judge... Honestly, people like this call into question the validity of an education being any indicator towards intelligence.

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This is the man who predicted a complete currency melt down by the end of 2009 or first quarter of 2010...by the latest.

It's a shtick. He constantly predicts doom and on the rare occassions he comes "close enough" to getting it right it's held up as proof of his prescience. Don't bother to check out his long list of failures...he's obviously channeling Nostrodamus here. Which is pretty close to the truth because Celente routinely fills out his commentary with vague and meaningless rhetoric that people mostly overlook as they fill in the white noise with whatever they want to hear.

Celente provides a service that's very marketable right now. His product is predictions of doom. Anyone looking for commentary on the impending catastrophic failure of society can call him up and purchase his services. His product is neatly packaged in such a way that you can use it to support nearly any view you're trying to sell. As long as you're looking to perpetuate fear. Because that's what he's selling.

This man is saying nothing of interest. Anything intelligent sounding has been cribbed from actual intelligent people with true understanding of the issues he's blustering about. Providing Celente with a forum does nothing to elevate discussion. Better to look for commentary from the sources he uses to fabricate the nonsense he's selling to the media.

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To be fair, the Soviets had many chances and a lot of time to stop Chernobyl from melting down by dropping the core into a giant lead and graphite plug that would seal it and stop the reaction. That is what they were supposed to do if a melt down started. However doing this ruins the plant and turns it into a giant paper weight. The engineers at Chernobyl repeatedly asked permission to drop the core and were denied by the government. In America, if a melt down was immanent, the plant engineers would drop the core because they wouldn't have to ask permission from the president to do so. The Soviets could have averted disaster by sacrificing their plant, but chose to try and stop the reaction AND save the plant so they didn't look foolish to the rest of the world. Uninformed, uneducated politicians were responsible for the Chernobyl disaster, not poor technology or incompetent engineers.


>> ^dingens:

As opposed to ... hmm, let's say, BPs incompetence? Sure, they don't run nuclear plants, but modern technology _can_ fail, especially when run by greedy bastards.

Aye, and thorium looks safer than a coal plant. Melt down consist of it being dumped into the equivalent of your car radiator, then cooled and pumped back in with no ill effects! I wish I was a crazy rich person so I could fund the hell out of thorium to put in my evil laboratory.

>> ^spawnflagger:
that's Natalie (communitychannel).
She's ethnically Vietnamese, but grew up and lives in Sydney Australia.
one of the funniest people on youtube, IMHO.


Being from North America, my exotic appreciation subroutines are melting down.

I hope the media will listen to Jon Stewart and stop doing these stupid analogies. The financial melt-down is complicated and you can't make it simple by talking about used cars or poisoned sandwiches. If you want to know more (without having to be an econ major, yet without being talked down to) go here: http://www.propublica.org/feature/all-the-magnetar-trade-how-one-hedge-fund-helped-keep-the-housing-bubble
or listen to the highlights of the story on "This American Life:" http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/inside-job

I can't believe Jon Stewart didn't take the opportunity to make fun of the name "Magnetar!"