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AtheistCrusader

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21. If they weren't
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 01:28 PM
Sep 2013

you'd know, because there would be a huge plume of radioactive steam from each of the damaged reactor buildings, and they wouldn't be trying to keep contamination IN the reactor buildings, because ahahahaa fuck it, it's left the barn already.

Basically, the correct question is; what credible sources claim the cores have exited the bottom of the buildings? (There is none)

Chilling the ground wouldn't help at all if that were the case, and the workers wouldn't be able to drill and put in the refrigeration stuff anyway. They'd all die.


I shouldn't perhaps use the word 'safely' in that context, I am just trying to illustrate a contrast between full on core material boring through the base of the building, and core sediment and particles carried out of the containment via the cooling water, which has collected and caused an enormous problem in the lower levels of the building.

Sick Bastard stonecutter357 Sep 2013 #1
they need to build a nuke plant Bennyboy Sep 2013 #2
There isn't a lot of heat. AtheistCrusader Sep 2013 #6
So how much of a nuclear reactor exboyfil Sep 2013 #3
The answer to that one is so simple christx30 Sep 2013 #15
Good for you, Shinzo Abe! raging moderate Sep 2013 #4
I don't think the IOC is going to pick Tokyo, but regardless they do need to do something to stop davidpdx Sep 2013 #5
Depends on how they place it, and how big it is. AtheistCrusader Sep 2013 #7
If they can't put it under the buildings, how can it contain the three melted fuel cores? Octafish Sep 2013 #13
The ice isn't about containing the cores. AtheistCrusader Sep 2013 #14
Really? ''The cores are safely inside the concrete containment.'' Octafish Sep 2013 #17
If they weren't AtheistCrusader Sep 2013 #21
Heh. I don't think the IOC Berlin Expat Sep 2013 #8
I think Istanbul is still a possibility given they are so far north davidpdx Sep 2013 #9
Ice? cilla4progress Sep 2013 #10
The operative words: elleng Sep 2013 #11
I'm not sure it will keep the white walkers out. I know it won't stop the wildlings. n/t hughee99 Sep 2013 #12
you beat me to it egold2604 Sep 2013 #20
yeah, right heaven05 Sep 2013 #16
Sure beats releasing it into the ocean! n/t bobGandolf Sep 2013 #18
K&R DeSwiss Sep 2013 #19
what happens heaven05 Sep 2013 #22
When the man falls through Politicalboi Sep 2013 #23
The Real News on Fukushima, September 5, 2013 proverbialwisdom Sep 2013 #24
an underwater ice wall instead of Tepco's ineptitude & irresponsibility? I'll take NO NUKES wordpix Sep 2013 #25
"We are the watchers on the wall"... n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #26
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