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Japanese nuclear crisis explained

submitted by geo321

1 decade 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago

With more states of emergency being declared at nuclear facilities in Japan, nuclear scientist Imad Khadduri says the risk of damage from meltdown is less than in disasters such as Chernoyl and Three Mile Island.-YT

3 Comments

GenjiKilpatrick

says...

this shit would never been a problem with thorium reactors

jimnms

says...

A little bit of *fear mongering from the scientist. His description of a "meltdown" A.K.A. "The China Syndrome" is a little extreme. If anything, Chernobyl proved that it wouldn't happen. The Chernobyl accident wasn't caused by a core meltdown, even though part of the core had begun to melt before the explosion, the explosion was a hydrogen explosion that blew up the reactor. The Chernobyl reactor design doesn't have a full containment structure, and after the explosion the core melted. As the Wikipedia article I linked states: "it is likely that the uranium core would not exceed more than 10 meters of 'boring' due to natural passive safety," is pretty much what happened at Chernobyl. The core melted its way into the basement of the building where it eventually cooled into a solid mass.