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Post coolant - 03-13-2011, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by tipsygypsy View Post
They just started pouring coolant into 3rd reactor. I don't know if its actual coolant or sea water tho.....
In this situation any significant amount of any water would be OK. Remember the movie K-19 Widowmaker? The film was based on real events. They got a situation onboard nuclear-powered sub when cooling system of nuclear reactor was broken. The reactor began to overheat. Technicians offered a plan to pour in cooling system of reactor drinkable fresh water from big reservoir. Finally reactor was cooled. Those, who accomplished a work in reactor zone got huge dozes of radiation. The source of radiation in K-19 reactor was a radioactive water from a broken cooling system. The main source of radiation in Fukushima plant seem to be mostly a radioactive vapor.
They need to get enormous amount of bromic acid to stop and uncontrolled reaction inside and melting.
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