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9. We have historical precedents for what really happens in a China Syndrome event

Thu Mar 3, 2016, 10:56 PM

Mar 2016

Both 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl had such events; in both of them, the melted fuel and corium didn't penetrate into the Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown#China_syndrome

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Melted nuclear fuel from Fukushima disaster is missing, company says [View all] bananas Mar 2016 OP

Good comment on the article LiberalArkie Mar 2016 #1

Thanks, I didn't see that. bananas Mar 2016 #2

they do not know where the melted fuel is but questionseverything Mar 2016 #3

The term "missing" is sugar coating and misleading. roamer65 Mar 2016 #4

We will have to rename it. roamer65 Mar 2016 #6

A few hundred miles east of Uruguay in the South Atlantic Ocean progree Mar 2016 #7

This article sums it up well in more ways than one miyazaki Mar 2016 #8

April Fool's Day article NickB79 Mar 2016 #10

Last I heard RobertEarl Mar 2016 #11