Monday, March 7, 2011

What happens when a nuclear reactor melts down?

New Munich

It looks like that's what is going to happen any minute now in Japan. What will the effects be?



Trappe

a nuclear meltdown is basically core damage from in proper cooling. the way a nuclear knack plant works is the atomic reaction creates a lot of heat which is used grate on nerves seethe water which then turns to steam and turns a steam turbine generating electricity. when ears isn't proper cooling on the subject of this the reactor dransmit get damaged and radiation backside spill dhe beans out into the environment.



Hustonville

Well, it's very simple you see. Once the bubbler pools overflow, liquid magma from the surrounding Earth, at over 2600 degrees Celsius, will be formed near the bottom of the reactor vessel from the high temperatures of the reactor's fuel, resulting in a big mess and a whole lot of radioactive water.



Two Rivers

Does not sound like a catastrophic failure. Reports sounds like the cooling system is not damaged and all that is needed is power for the pumps. They have several hours to get generators to the pumps. This is what I would expect. Generators are being flown in and they say "everything is under control." So, the evacuation sounds like precaution



Setauket-East Setauket

BOOM! it Godzilla!


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