First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by anigbrowl on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:39PM (#19176153)

I also find it interesting that the "China Syndrome"[2] speculation is pretty much completely debunked.

That term was never meant to be taken literally, in the movie where it originates it is presented as a fanciful exaggeration meant to emphasize the seriousness of the risk. The actual plot concerns the risk of groundwater contamination following a nuclear accident, not a planet-piercing tunnel.

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by GordonS on Saturday February 16, 2019 @07:47AM (#19178357)

> That term was never meant to be taken literally

As a kid growing up in the 80's, I remember people, even school teachers, did take that term literally!

It was one of those things I kind of forgot about for years and took for granted as being "truth", until I actually read about nuclear power!

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by jobigoud on Saturday February 16, 2019 @02:20AM (#19177530)

But is there a material that humans could build that would sink into Earth like that, for a few kilometers say, either due to melting its way down or gravity or density?

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by anigbrowl on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @05:45PM (#19203666)

I really don't know. I've never thought of it as anything other than a colorful metaphor and don't know enough physics or chemistry to speculate.

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