(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
The building containing Reactor 4 at Fukushima might fall over!
Would that be a significant problem?
“Of course not! There are never any significant problems with nuclear power! Shut up!”
But what about those 1535 fuel assemblies stored in the spent fuel pool at Reactor 4?
If the whole building falls over, wouldn’t they all be exposed to the air, with no cooling whatsoever? Would it be a significant problem if they all started burning? According to the BBC…
If you are in any doubt as to what this means, it is that in the company’s view, it is possible that enough fissile uranium is present in the cooling pond in enough density to form a critical mass – meaning that a nuclear fission chain reaction could start.
Would an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction at Fukushima be a significant problem?
“Of course not! There are never any significant problems with nuclear power! Shut up!”
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