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Concrete doesn't burn. No. But concrete can crack during, say, an earthquake. And I assume concrete can also lose integrity (melt? vaporize?) under very high
by moe 16y ago
Concrete doesn't burn.
No. But concrete can crack during, say, an earthquake.
And I assume concrete can also lose integrity (melt? vaporize?) under very high temperatures.
- _delirium 16y agoWikipedia has some details on the typical interactions here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)#Corium-concrete_interactions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)#Corium... The summary is that yes, typically concrete would melt at temperatures anywhere in the range that you'd expected a molten core to be at. My understanding is that newer designs have a "core catcher" under the reactor made of something more resistant than concrete, but this unit doesn't.