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Re:If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl R... by ris on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:51PM (#20077654)
> How does a piece of spent fuel end up in a "grassy bit of ground" outside the reactor?

There was a pretty huge steam-based explosion, blowing the top off the reactor building and scattering fuel and various debris quite far & wide.

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Re:If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl R... by tilt_error on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:46PM (#20078871)
There is a possibility that the first explosion (there were several) was nuclear-based and not steam-based [1] and produced radioactive plasma, but the plasma jets cut through both the bottom and top of the reactor.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...

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