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Originally Posted by [Golbez-RG-]
(Post 16271562)
LOL, do you REALLY think that if the reaction stops the radiation stops? You know Chernobyl had NO containment building, right? If the containment building fails on top, as the other troll was saying would happen, you're dead wrong about no radiation getting in the atmosphere. I personally don't think the containment building will fail, but if it does... there will still be pretty bad fallout. That's the whole point of a containment building. There doesn't have to be a reaction occurring for radiation to stay around or get into the atmosphere. Why do you think Chernobyl is still radioactive? The control rods are probably melted at this point, nobody really knows what the current status is because nobody can get close to the plant to see what's going on inside the reactor, from you guessed it, RADIATION.
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I'm somewhat confused as to how you read my post and came to the conclusion that I think there is going to be no residual radiation after the core is shut down. The entire purpose of the concrete and steel containment building is to keep the harmful radiation contained so it can't get out into the surrounding areas or the atmosphere.
Of course there are going to be extremely high levels of radiation inside but as long as the containment vessel is in place it's not going anywhere. The only way that could have happened would have been if the earthquake had damaged it. Thus far there is absolutely no indication that this is the case. The vessel is designed to withstand extreme seismic activity, hurricanes, and acts of sabotage. You are right when you say a breach of containment would cause contamination but there is absolutely no indication that this is the case. If this were to happen I would agree that it would be time for the Japanese to panic.
There is no runaway chain reaction that can take place inside this type of reactor, the slagged fuel isn't going to plow through the drywell, breach the containment vessel, and dig into the watertable/the core/the other side of the planet. The reactors are going to be rendered inoperable and the economic impact will be enormous but the damage to the environment and people will be nothing at all like Chernobyl.
I've also explained multiple times that there was no such structure surrounding Chernobyl so I am also somewhat confused as to why you are trying to explain this to me. It was an essential point in a few of my posts trying to explain the difference between the situations in Japan/Ukraine to everyone here (RBMK/BWR, Graphite/Water, Negative/Positive void coefficients). The media hype surrounding this is absolutely ridiculous, I'm simply trying to help explain what I can based off the information available.
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