Fukushima de lucht in?

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2013 21:42 schreef mvdejong het volgende:
Er staat ook in het artikel niets over "de lucht in", en dat kan ook niet gebeuren. Wat niet wil zeggen dat wat er wel kan gebeuren, het ontsnappen van zwaar radioactief water, niet erg genoeg is.

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What could potentially happen is the contents of the pool could burn and/or explode, and the entire structure sustain further damage or collapse. This chain reaction process could be self-sustaining and go on for a long time. This is the apocalyptic scenario in a nutshell.

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TEPCO, the plant owner, announced that if the rods were exposed, there was a small chance they would reach criticality, setting off a nuclear chain reaction (not an explosion).[10] According to nuclear plant safety specialists, the chances of criticality in a spent fuel pool are very small, usually avoided by the dispersal of the fuel assemblies, inclusion of a neutron absorber in the storage racks and overall by the fact that the spent fuel has a too low enrichment level to self-sustain a fission reaction. They also state that if the water covering the spent fuel evaporates, there is no element to moderate the chain reaction.[11][12][13]