no explosion, just contaminates the water table

Not it's not worse then we thought. Plenty of experts said it was going to be really bad.

no explosion, just contaminates the water table


So.. Nuclear fuel that is so hot that it burns through concrete and steel will not cause an explosion? No nuclear explosion, no. But you'll have continuous (huge) explosions when the fuel reaches the water table. Something like a nuclear geyser..

We already know, the Japanese managed to dissolve whole nuclear reactor in marine water. Just twenty years after publishing of cold fusion technology.

Everyone is curious what happens once the molten nuclear fuel finally leaves the last of all 7 security containments.

What is under the buildings? What were the buildings built on?
Does "cold shutdown" become meaningless in this scenario?
Will contact to bare earth cause an explosion?


Your last question is a valid one. Even when the facility is built on solid rock, it will continue to burn through the rock. When enough water comes into the shaft for example, it will result in contaminating steam explosions. This will go on until this burning blob of nuclear fuel is cooled down enough. It's a blob now, no rods which you can cool in a controlled way.

Why would contact with bare earth cause an explosion? That doesn't make any sense.

The main problem with a complete meltdown is ground water contamination. That is the nightmare scenario here.

The global nuclear powered paradise... is an unworkable fantasy.

Right. Nuclear God-like power should only be kept bottled up in billions-dollars nuclear warheads so we can always have our God-like Thor's hammer brandishing over the heads of upstarts who wants to use/perfect nuclear power for something else. Especially, the developing and perfecting part! If once it is known that safe nuclear is not only possible but technically doable by any country with reasonably competent industrial base, our God-like power will go down the toilet. It is absolutely good to be able to bully, rater than to be bullied! "Never again" will be engraved on every warhead!

Everyone is curious what happens once the molten nuclear fuel finally leaves the last of all 7 security containments.

What is under the buildings? What were the buildings built on?
Does "cold shutdown" become meaningless in this scenario?
Will contact to bare earth cause an explosion?


No, it pretty much keeps melting through the foundation and through the crust of the Earth until it runs out of energy or gets mixed and dilluted in the magma it makes out of the concrete and soil.

Yeah, contaminating everything along the way, namely the water table and anything down stream, both above and below the surface.

I kind of thought this would happen. When the Tsunami originally hit, I spent several weeks reviewing how the plant was built, my main thoughts were about how tidally-influenced capillary actions of groundwater under the plant might slowly leach contaminants out.

I'm still waiting for somebody to realize that Fukushima is actually a major stop for migrating fish, mammals, bugs and more. All you guys/gals should check out migratory pathways on that side of the world, the East-Asia Flyway is one.

Hell, there are pacific salmon that come all the way from Japan to swim hundreds of miles into the West coast of the US for example.

Let's find a way to start a nuclear war so we don't notice the little Fukushima problem anymore.

Why not to start with cold fusion instead? We will become rich and we could forget all these nasty problems of nuclear energetic - not just this little of Fukushima. You people should realize, what is better for us. Why to destroy everything we created in the last century just because we cannot face the new reality? We are like the people, who are willingly dying at desert in the shadow of bottled water vending machine. Such a catatonic resignation is really striking: we can build a skyscrapers, we can organize cosmic flights at Moon - but we cannot organize the research of silly simple technology, because we do believe in the opposite.

It just illustrates, how strong destructive force the intersubjective religion can be.