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Nuclear Winter won’t matter when spent nuclear fuel pools in those nations undergo meltdowns following sustained losses of offsite power caused by catastrophic
by cocoablazing 9y ago
Nuclear Winter won’t matter when spent nuclear fuel pools in those nations undergo meltdowns following sustained losses of offsite power caused by catastrophic damage to the national electrical distribution system. The fuel in a nuclear reactor is marginal relative to SFP loading.
- quotemstr 9y agoA nuclear meltdown is a localized concern. It's small potatoes compared to an all out nuclear exchange.
- cocoablazing 9y agoAn SFP fire is not a reactor meltdown, and the distribution of fission products from a SFP and a weapon are also very dissimilar. SFP fires will result in long-lived contamination over plumes of >100km that would result in exclusion zones. For example, failure to restore cooling to the Fukushima pools could have necessitated the evacuation of 35MM people. http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs24vonhippel.pdf http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs24vonhippel.p... Even in a pure-counterforce exchange that avoided targeting population centers, the resulting damage to infrastructure could result in the denial of current urban centers to habitation for many decades.