[yank in the UK]

Oops!

[Steely Tom]

And it melted its way to the center of the Earth, right?

[UB355]

This happening in the US was labeled the China Syndrome, they were wrong again.

However what would the movie be called if it were to be made in Japan?

[Shadow44]

That doesn’t sound good at all. Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?

[UB355]

This happening in the US was labeled the China Syndrome, they were wrong again.

However what would the movie be called if it were to be made in Japan?

[Moleman]

Nothing to see here...... lol

[rightwingextremist1776]

I guess that means Nuke power is safe now that the world is still here and doesn’t have a navel where a power plant used to be.....

[Uncle Slayton]

[Art in Idaho]

So now what? I assume our state department, military, private industry has been talking with the government of Japan and TEPCO from the outset and offering any assistance we could. I wonder. This is a world problem. I respect Micio Kaku. He sounds worried.

[Deb]

And that’s a bad thing, right?

[Vendome]

So in it’s current state it is pretty much unsalvageable and there is no way to contain it? Evuh?

So does it sit there for 1,000’s of years or does it eat through the containment field and then melt it’s way to the core?

Wonder if there will a loud boom when it reaches magma?

[evets]

Kills household germs on contact!

[Vendome]

http://www.civilbeat.com/posts/2011/03/18/9769-how-to-access-almost-real-time-hawaii-radiation-data-from-epa/

[Dogbert41]

if we pumped about a million gallons of freon on that sucker...oh wait...

[Uri’el-2012]

Is this being reported by a Left-Wing Alarmist rag ?

[TXnMA]

They are using "liquified" -- in the past tense. Does that not mean that it liquified, and is now solid again?

Not sure if this GE design incorporates a Boron "catch pan" at the bottom of the containment vessel. Boron will "poison" the reaction and quench it so that the core will stop melting itself. Properly designed Boron catch pans will contain an entire melted core until it solidifies, and will keep it immobile and stable.

This sounds to me like a transient event that is no longer a threat.

[chrisser]

So has this liquified core melted down to below sea level?

That would make the situation “more complicated”.

[fishtank]

CORIUM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)

[DTogo]

How does Michio Kaku know this to be fact?

[colorado tanker]

That plant has been fukushima’d over.

[cuban leaf]

I must confess that I am more than a little concerned that this thing could go all “1950’s doomsday movie” on us.

Seeing as the world’s civilization is going through social and economic meltdown as I write this, I suppose this would complete the picture. ;-)