I don't care is it melts, I care if it's going to leak significant amounts of nasty stuff to the environment(1) - which WOULD be inexcusable, and which would pr

I don't care is it melts, I care if it's going to leak significant amounts of nasty stuff to the environment(1) - which WOULD be inexcusable, and which would prompt me to seriously reconsider my support of nuclear power. I'm not opposed to everyone running old reactors taking a step back saying "uh uh, could this happen to us?" - I'm opposed to the hand waving assertion that when the initial lifetime runs out, you're supposed to just scrap the thing. 1: (Those events may or may not be the same. Apparently the third containment is designed to hold a melted core indefinitely, but there are reports of containment breach - however it's unclear which level of containments we're talking about)