[padre35]

“Is this another Chernbyl...”

Absolutely NOT, Chernobyl was a grphite cored reactor, they were testing it and inadvertantly drained all of the coolant fromt he reactor then restarted it, the reactor melted down and burned through the floor.

In Japan, the reactor shut off automatically, there can be no reactor melt down.

this is the sort of thing the Enviroweenies luv to pounce on, rather then congratulating the Japanese engineers for sucha great design, they will scream about a spill...

[dfwgator]

Waiting for "Captain Hyperbole" to make his long-awaited appearance.

[RockinRight]

I assumed it wasn’t - but figured by phrasing the question that way, I’d get a good science lesson! So it’s good design - something we ought to emulate, actually.

[Clam Digger]

rather then congratulating the Japanese American engineers for such a great design

[jeffers]

“padre35 wrote:
“Is this another Chernbyl...”

Absolutely NOT, Chernobyl was a grphite cored reactor, they were testing it and inadvertantly drained
all of the coolant fromt he reactor then restarted it, the reactor melted down and burned through the floor.

In Japan, the reactor shut off automatically, there can be no reactor melt down.

this is the sort of thing the Enviroweenies luv to pounce on, rather then congratulating the Japanese
engineers for sucha great design, they will scream about a spill...”

That’s not even close to what happened at Chernobyl.