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Poll: Will the Japan Nuclear Reactor meltdown?

Will the Nuclear Reactor in Japan meltdown?

  • No (Media Hype)

  • Yes (It's Looking Dire)

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13Gigatons

13Gigatons

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Poll: Will the Japan Nuclear Reactor meltdown?

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It isn't hype. It is reality. Look up the mechanisms at play in a nuclear reactor, then take away the cooling systems, then take away the emergency response team that was working to remedy the situation.

Japan is understating and the United States is overstating that understatement. That means that the United States media is probably closer to the truth.
 
it won't meltdown

all the attention has changed focus to spent fuel rod pools in the past couple days. so my interpretation is that the reactor cores are becoming more stable and the bigger issue is that the Japanese need to get the water level in their pools up to a sufficient level.
 
Actually, there has been a partial meltdown already.

Plus, the reactor core has been breached.

What I think would be a better poll is will the reactor meltdown into the water that is underneath the containment vessel. If it does it will send a cloud of very highly radioactive water vapor into the atmosphere....

If this happens, its the worst case scenario. Depending on weather conditions it could seriously harm Tokyo 150 miles away.
 
ITT nuclear experts argue of what is going to happen to something they can't see on the other side of the earth.
 
techs said:
Actually, there has been a partial meltdown already.

Plus, the reactor core has been breached.

What I think would be a better poll is will the reactor meltdown into the water that is underneath the containment vessel. If it does it will send a cloud of very highly radioactive water vapor into the atmosphere....

If this happens, its the worst case scenario. Depending on weather conditions it could seriously harm Tokyo 150 miles away.
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What techs said.

In terms of what the media is portraying, it is all hype.
 
Depends on the meaning of "meltdown" and what level of meltdown is used.

I suspect there's already been some severe damage in the reactors...but whether the fuel rods have melted into a puddle and gone through the bottom of the reactor vessel and into the containment pool is another question...but I DOUBT they'll get that far...or worse, melt through the containment pool and into the ground...
 
ShawnD1 said:
in another thread you said something about there's no breach limit. what did you mean?
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What I said was that morons should stop saying "the core has breached!" because the core has no pressure boundary. The core is merely the area in the reactor pressure vessel where the fuel is situated. It's just another piece of misinformation that is pissing me off.
 
techs said:
Actually, there has been a partial meltdown already.

Plus, the reactor core has been breached.

What I think would be a better poll is will the reactor meltdown into the water that is underneath the containment vessel. If it does it will send a cloud of very highly radioactive water vapor into the atmosphere....

If this happens, its the worst case scenario. Depending on weather conditions it could seriously harm Tokyo 150 miles away.
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For the record, the prevailing winds would push the cloud northeast towards Alaska due to the major wind belt Tokyo lies in unless some storm pushed it south/southwest.

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Tokyo is ~35 degrees north
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html
 
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