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In reply to the discussion: Fuel rod removal: Fukushima’s most dangerous operation yields first successes [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)64. Quit yer dreaming, FBaggins
It really makes you look..... not so smart.
Water is a solvent. Water destroys rocks, concrete too. Add in the rads and the movement and the physics of erosion, and you end up with problems. Really, I have to be the one to remind you of such elemental facts?
The buildings were damaged by the earthquakes. Now ground water is flowing into the basements, and water from above that is used to cool the cores is adding to the amounts flowing into and out of the basements. And that is becoming a big problem. Even Tepco admits these facts.
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Fuel rod removal: Fukushima’s most dangerous operation yields first successes [View all]
MineralMan
Nov 2013
OP
exactly. furthermore, reactor 4 is the easiest of the reactors to remove the fuel from...
magical thyme
Nov 2013
#25
perfectly normal except manually operated and the easiest of the rods to be removed.
magical thyme
Nov 2013
#37
Sorry, but I'm taking the word of people who actually do the job of fuel removal
magical thyme
Nov 2013
#44
well, for one thing, if they have never been critical, they are only alpha emitters.
Throckmorton
Nov 2013
#60