18th March 2011, 09:51 PM
yes Kevin it is...
Fukuishima No.1 plant is on the coast (former beach), on reclaimed land - water table IS the sea...
unfortunately, endlessly pouring water on the damaged reactors and compromised spent fuel pools is actually one of the 3 likely outcomes...
1)massive explosion...oh dear
2)burial in concrete sarcophagus (Nb - this will not suppress ongoing reactions in same way as water + boron covering, so long - very long - term exclusion zone)
3)pour water + boron on the cores until radioactivity subsides (sometime after the sun itself has exploded and the solar system as we known it has ceased to exist)
there are no other alternatives
detectable radioactivity from last Fridays small ejections on US west coast...more to come
in Japan in gets even worse... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ds-newsxml
what will happen?... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...night.html ...
Fukuishima No.1 plant is on the coast (former beach), on reclaimed land - water table IS the sea...
unfortunately, endlessly pouring water on the damaged reactors and compromised spent fuel pools is actually one of the 3 likely outcomes...
1)massive explosion...oh dear
2)burial in concrete sarcophagus (Nb - this will not suppress ongoing reactions in same way as water + boron covering, so long - very long - term exclusion zone)
3)pour water + boron on the cores until radioactivity subsides (sometime after the sun itself has exploded and the solar system as we known it has ceased to exist)
there are no other alternatives
detectable radioactivity from last Fridays small ejections on US west coast...more to come
in Japan in gets even worse... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ds-newsxml
what will happen?... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...night.html ...