NRC fears Fukushima Reactor 3 Bottom could break and dump entire core.
Posted by JAC on 6/5/2011, 7:45 am
From Arnie Gunderson Interview


http://www.chrismartenson.com/page/transcript-exclusive-arnie-gundersen-interview-dangers-fukushima-are-worse-and-longer-lived-we-

Now, Unit 3 has another problem and the NRC mentioned it yesterday for the first time and it gets back to that saltwater and the effect on iron. They are afraid that the reactor bottom will break, literally just break right out and dump everything. Because it's now hot and it's got salt on it and it's got the ideal conditions for corrosion. So the big fear on Unit 3 is that it will break at the bottom and whatever else remains in it, which could be the entire core, could fall out suddenly. And if that happens, you can get something called a "steam explosion," and this may be a one in a hundred chance. I don't want your listeners to think it's going to happen tomorrow, but if the core breaks you will get a steam explosion, but we're not sure the core is going to break. And that is a violent hydrogen explosion like the one we've already witnessed.


But now the winds have turned, so they are heading to the south toward Tokyo and now my concern and my advice to friends that if there is a severe aftershock and the Unit 4 building collapses, leave.

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