Radiation-eating fungus, ehh???-There's hope for the big brown radioactive plastic-water-ball yet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus

Cave Fungus

"During meltdown, men dove into a radioactive pool to open a pipe, they died, but prevented an explosion 10x bigger than Hiroshima."

I thought this was BS... then I looked it up... It really COULD have gone up that way.

Link?

Regarding the men who dived into the radioactive pool:

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Divers-Going-into-Chernobyl-to-Prevent-Bigger-Disaster

Divers Going into Chernobyl to Prevent Bigger Disaster has been added as a related post - related requested by RFlagg.

Here's one for ya: every summer, several hundred Belarusian/Ukrainian children, age 8 to 15, are flown to my neck of the woods to spend four weeks in a non-radioactive environment in order to reduce their levels of radiation and bolster their immune systems. The next plane with 119 children and nine mothers is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday.

Interesting, given your username.

HALLO STALKER!

Just in general terms, I'm one of those non-nuclear-physicists who was under the (mistaken) belief that fusion and fission reactions were different from each other. One being explosive, the other being incredibly hot. I had thought reactors were fissile, and Chernobyl was a massive steam explosion, and incapable of blowing up like a nu-cu-lur bomb. Instead, melting down and causing the "China Syndrome"

Finding out both fission AND fusion can "go Hiroshima" gives me pause when considering nuclear-electric power..