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Re:One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be ... by jeremyjh on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:08AM (#21158435)
No, nearly all the uranium was contained at Chernobyl. If it had melted down a little faster it could have hit a flooded basement before it was drained. The steam explosion would have distributed uranium dust over potentially thousands of miles.
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Re:One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be ... by vonmoltke on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:59AM (#21158921)
Do you have a source for the likelihood of that, as well as the likelihood of it rendering those thousands of miles uninhabitable?
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Re:One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be ... by beerandt on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:30PM (#21159907)
I think this theory has been mostly debunked, ironically because it pretty much happened in multiple reactors at fukashima without that disastrous result.
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Re:One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be ... by jeremyjh on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:19PM (#21160975)
There was no core breach at all in Fukushima.
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Re:One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be ... by beerandt on Friday October 04, 2019 @07:45PM (#21162856)
It didn't fully breach the concrete floor, but it breached the pressure vessels in at least 2 reactors and fell into a "basement" of pooled water, without the catastrophic stream explosion hypothesized for Chernobyl.
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