Japan’s Fukushima plant faces danger of overheating

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40. One of us is in denial of common physics... the other one majored in the subject

That's not you... now is it?

Pool #4 drained and it ended up with the building being blown up.

Nope. There was a point in the first few days when many of us thought that it may have drained... but it obviously never did. If there was a drainage pathway, it wouldn't hold water now - which it obviously does.

These pool's bottoms are 50 feet off the ground. The heat and radioactivity degrade the structural integrity of the pools.

Nope. Water can't get hot enough to "degrade the structural integrity" of thick steel-reinforced and steel-lined concrete. It simply can't.

And neither can alpha or beta particles from spent fuel (almost entirely shielded by water).

Pipes rust, steel in concrete rusts, and concrete dissolves.

Rusting pipes don't cause pool drainage when they aren't "downhill" from the pool. That is simple physics. Steel inside concrete doesn't rust. That's why steel-reinforced dams can last for centuries. Go ahead and tell the Hoover Dam folks that concrete disolves over that kind of timeframe. They deserve to get the same laughs that you so frequently provide the rest of us.