Comment 60964

By ClarkW (anonymous) | Posted March 15, 2011 at 07:51:52 in reply to Comment 60961

"Every few hours, though, another reactor's lost cooling, exploded, caught fire, venting gas, or "partially" melting down."

First of all no reactors have "exploded" yet, only some of the buildings AROUND the reactors have had their roofs blown off after workers vented the steam out of the reactors and the superhot steam separated into hydrogen and oxygen and then reacted together. Secondly, venting gas isn't a problem, it's one of the tools they have to keep the reactor from overheating. The steam is radioactive for a couple of seconds--that's where the spikes in rad levels are coming from--but it's the kind of radioactivity that becomes stable again almost immediately. The steam is a bit dirtier thanks to the seawater they're using because the salt and crap is a bit more reactive than pure distilled water but it's still extremely short lived. Third of all none of the reactors has melted down, not fully or partially or anything elsely.

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