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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima is an ongoing problem [View all]FBaggins
(26,748 posts)You're not anywhere close to reality on this one. They aren't hot. There's no need to mince words or leave wiggle room... they simply aren't.
They are dumping untold amounts of water on 3 melted cores
Nope. They're dumping about 4-5 tons of water per hour on them. Note that an active reactor uses hundreds of thousands of gallons per minute to cool the core.
and all that water is going into the pacific along with the groundwater flowing thru the site.
Nope. Most of the water is pumped out and run through processing that either sends it back into the core or into tanks. If all of that water were flowing into the Pacific, they would actually detect higher rates of contamination in the water next to the plant. They haven't (as has been pointed out to you - with links - multiple times).
They are attempting to construct an ice wall around the melted cores in order to stop the water from flowing into the pacific
Nope. They're talking about constructing an ice wall around the reactor buildings to keep the groundwater from flowing in - thus reducing the volume of water that they need to handle.
and you say you have evidence that the cores are not hot?
Nothing in what I just replied to provides any evidence that the cores are hot. It's always entertaining for me to watch you list 3-5 unrelated claims and then jump to your conclusion as if there were actually a relationship.
No, FB, you don't have any evidence that backs your assertions that the melted cores are not hot.
No evidence at all? You mean evidence like multiple temperature gauges in each unit and the temperature of the water coming out of the cores? Or evidence like the simple fact that if they were hot, that would require active fission at this point and they couldn't possibly hide that (let alone deal with it with a few tons of water per hour)?
http://irid.or.jp/debris/S1-1E.pdf
The amount of heat created in the cores is a matter of un-debatable physics. There's been no fission there for over three years (remember that after about five years, spent fuel puts out so little heat that it can be placed in dry casks without any water cooling at all). If there was any fission going on there would be no way to hide it. There would be radioactive noble gases and radioiodine that would be easy to detect.