Please consider the source of the idiots making comments here.
"We're now into the fourth day. Whatever is happening in that core is taking a long time to unfold," said Mark Hibbs, a senior associate at the nuclear policy program for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "They've succeeded in prolonging the timeline of the accident sequence."
Anyone that knows about nuke energy knows it takes weeks to cool off a nuke pile!
Give us all a big break, they interview some smuck from the anti-nuclear Anti-American philantropy community!!!
Agreed, what no one seems to be explaining is once the rods are fully in the boron laced seawater it has to be ciruculated to keep the water from boiling off...
This is a weeks long endeavor to keep from a total meltdown. They can’t keep going like this something needs to happen on a large scale involvement here(thinking our military support of radiological type.)
At this point we’re watching a quasi controlled cool down or partial meltdown.
These are heroic measures of the plant personnel and the fact these 40 year old plants can be handled in this manner indicates we’ve come a long way in emergency response to catastrophic event horizons. The measure by how much worse this could have been just even 10 years ago...wow.