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As far as we know, the buildings housing the reactors at the Fukashima nuclear power plant have exploded from hydrogen gas buildup. However, the reactor vessels themselves remain intact. A nuclear meltdown, also known as "the china syndrome" happens when all of the fuel inside of the reactor overheats and melts, then burns it's way through the bottom of the reactor vessel, through the floor of the containment building, through the ground beneath the plant, and into the water basin located directly underground. This creates a geothermal explosion causing giant geysers of radioactive steam shooting through the general area surrounding the plant.
I do not see this at the Fukashima NPP, meaning that a total meltdown has not yet occurred. All we are being told is that the buildings surrounding the reactors have exploded. If we see giant geysers of steam shooting up from out of the ground, is it safe to assume that one of the units went into total meltdown? Is this really what a meltdown looks like?
During the Chernobyl disaster, miners were sent to tunnel beneath the plant, and underneath the reactor to flood the area with concrete so the molten fuel still inside the shattered reactor wouldn't melt it's way through the floor of the plant and create an even bigger catastrophe. Many of these miners died from radiation sickness.
I do not see this at the Fukashima NPP, meaning that a total meltdown has not yet occurred. All we are being told is that the buildings surrounding the reactors have exploded. If we see giant geysers of steam shooting up from out of the ground, is it safe to assume that one of the units went into total meltdown? Is this really what a meltdown looks like?
During the Chernobyl disaster, miners were sent to tunnel beneath the plant, and underneath the reactor to flood the area with concrete so the molten fuel still inside the shattered reactor wouldn't melt it's way through the floor of the plant and create an even bigger catastrophe. Many of these miners died from radiation sickness.