Michio Kaku: 3 meltdowns in Fukushima, but uranium actually totally liquified… 1st time in history — “Reactor actually melted totally” (VIDEO)
Professor Michio Kaku, City College of New York:
We had three simultaneous core meltdowns in Fukushima, but the uranium actually liquified — liquified — we’ve never seen a totally liquified core before.
First time in history.
But the Fukushima reactor actually melted totally.
Michio Kaku: American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, a co-founder of string field theory [...] Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968 and was first in his physics class. He attended the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972.
Re: Michio Kaku: 3 meltdowns in Fukushima, but uranium actually totally liquified… 1st time in history — “Reactor actually melted totally” (VIDEO)
What that means is more of a possibility that the entire melted core escaped the vessel. The old Mark I reactors are moderated by control rods which are inserted through the bottom of the vessel.
Re: Michio Kaku: 3 meltdowns in Fukushima, but uranium actually totally liquified… 1st time in history — “Reactor actually melted totally” (VIDEO)
Obviously this is bad. But if someone could please translate that to english i.e. how bad? so what etc..?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28157904
Not really, Superpowers can be beneficial, as long as you use them for good. It is when you go over to the Dark Side that the problems occur. Bedwetting, random spoon bending, using x-ray vision to see through ladies garments, that sort of mischief.
...oh, you mean THAT....well, depending on who you talk to, it could be as bad as an Extinction Level Event.
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of Worlds" - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Re: Michio Kaku: 3 meltdowns in Fukushima, but uranium actually totally liquified… 1st time in history — “Reactor actually melted totally” (VIDEO)
Well the melting point of Uranium is about 2070F, the melting point of iron is 2800F. (Source google.) Like anything, it's all about potential energy. It must be under pressure in order for this to happen, and for the conduction of the heat energy to take place. Some alloys of bronze can get as high as 1700F for their melting point. So, it melting naturally isn't too far fetched given the right conditions. Meaning the vessel that's containing the Uranium is doing it's job containing the radiation. It's all about how much they rated the vessel for, and how much damage was done to it in the earth quake. If there are any weaknesses. It MIGHT explode due to the amount of energy stored. That would be a really bad thing. My only basis for this is the few chemistry classes I've taken, and what I know about objects under internal pressure.
Re: Michio Kaku: 3 meltdowns in Fukushima, but uranium actually totally liquified… 1st time in history — “Reactor actually melted totally” (VIDEO)
Obviously this is bad. But if someone could please translate that to english i.e. how bad? so what etc..?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28157904
Not really, Superpowers can be beneficial, as long as you use them for good. It is when you go over to the Dark Side that the problems occur. Bedwetting, random spoon bending, using x-ray vision to see through ladies garments, that sort of mischief.
...oh, you mean THAT....well, depending on who you talk to, it could be as bad as an Extinction Level Event.
Re: Michio Kaku: 3 meltdowns in Fukushima, but uranium actually totally liquified… 1st time in history — “Reactor actually melted totally” (VIDEO)
Well the melting point of Uranium is about 2070F, the melting point of iron is 2800F. (Source google.) Like anything, it's all about potential energy. It must be under pressure in order for this to happen, and for the conduction of the heat energy to take place. Some alloys of bronze can get as high as 1700F for their melting point. So, it melting naturally isn't too far fetched given the right conditions. Meaning the vessel that's containing the Uranium is doing it's job containing the radiation. It's all about how much they rated the vessel for, and how much damage was done to it in the earth quake. If there are any weaknesses. It MIGHT explode due to the amount of energy stored. That would be a really bad thing. My only basis for this is the few chemistry classes I've taken, and what I know about objects under internal pressure.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25019064
Lol, you must've majored in professional trolling/shill...
Three reactors china syndromed, aka 3 masses of corium HAVE burned themselves COMPLETELY THROUGH THE REACTOR CONTAINMENT, down into the ground itself. It's been sad tepco has been tracking the coriums on their path to the sea shelf, which is the reason why they went OUT TO SEA to concrete the ocean floor. Reactor three itself contained MOX, or mixed oxide fuels which contain both URANIUM AND PLUTONIUM, which as a fun fact of 1 pound was aerosolized and spread evenly throughout the atmosphere, would kill every single man, woman, and child on this earth. There were between 400-600 pounds in reactor three alone, which was the famous reactor that went "boom".
Is this serious? Yes. Extinction Level Event type serious. That's why you don't hear of it on the news. There's no stopping it. We've already been affected in the United States. It is an endgame scenario.