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> As any physicist knows, an uncontrolled aggregation of fissile stuff can go boom. And this is what in fact happened in Fukushima No, that wasn't what happene
by rmtech 6y ago
> As any physicist knows, an uncontrolled aggregation of fissile stuff can go boom. And this is what in fact happened in Fukushima
No, that wasn't what happened at Fukushima. There was no "boom" from a nuclear chain reaction there.
- jnxx 6y agoSimilarly as in Chernobyl, the chain reaction produced excess heat, and this likely caused water to dissociate into oxygen/hdydrogenium which caused the big explosion. In that sense, it was not a nuclear explosion, but one caused by an out-of-control chain reaction. If I remember correctly, there were also reports of some observations of short-lived fission products. But we still do not know exactly what happened. Roughly the same could have happened in Three Miles Island, because the reactor was melting down, but the process was stopped, possibly very little time before the reactor would have been destroyed.
- pfdietz 6y agoThe Chernobyl explosion was not due to hydrogen and oxygen reacting. If you heat water hot enough to dissociate, it will explode just from the pressure of the steam. There's no need to add endothermic chemical reactions to the scene.
- rmtech 6y agoChernobly may in fact have been a small nuclear explosion.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoThere was no nuclear explosion at Chernobyl. I guarantee you will find zero sources for your theory other than conspiracy sites. It was physically impossible for there to have been a nuclear explosion.