remember kids, this isn't a meltdown, like a classic Chernobyl, meltdown, where the core fissions like a overcooked egg and throws radioactive fallout over half the world. This is just a partial meltdown where the fuel cools slowly in the open air, letting the birds and bees inhale a slight radioactive mist. Quite romantic.

"Containment" is somewhat misleading as the layer most commonly referred to as "containment" in the news is the third layer, which is still standing, supposedly even undamaged. First layer is the zircaloy casing around the pellets, second layer is the pressure vessel, a sturdy pot of steel, and third layer is a massive bubble of reinforced concrete, hermetically sealing the pressure vessels and all the piping inside. What blew away was "only" the surrounding building.

Not that this isn't bad enough already, but if the actual containment aka third layer blows up, then the defecation really hits the oscillation.

Then again, listening to three commentators on the news, you'll get four different opinions. The BBC even showed a schematic containing a core-catcher to illustrate the current events, even though that bloody thing hadn't even been invented when these NPPs were build. Flow of information is a mess.

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