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Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by larkost on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:22PM (#46360461)
An actual meltdown at sea would have the now-molten uranium come in contact with seawater, which would instantly flash to high-pressure steam, throwing the uranium into a cancer-causing cloud that the world has never yet seen.

This is absolutely a terrible idea about how to deal with a meltdown.

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Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by cbm-vic-20 on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:42PM (#46360625)
Doing the math, it looks like the amount of uranium in pre-disaster Chernobyl is 200 metric tons. Apparently, that can bring 333ML (133 Olympic sized swimming pools) of room temperature water to a boil.
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