Freefall wrote:
I read earlier that the radiation, if there were a meltdown, will be 1000 times less than chernoby. Somehow I canLt believe that as the Japanse plant has way more radioactive material in the reactor than chernobyl.
That '1000 times less' goes only if the containment structure keeps intact - as it is designed to do, even when there is a meltdown. But... Only 8.5 size earthquakes were taken into account when bulding those reactors.
If a containment structure would blow up too, then the disaster will be *much* bigger then Chernobyl. I think i've read somewhere the containment structure is a 10cm thick metal dome. I can imagine that there is a leak in the dome, because of those explosions. Anyway, there already has escaped much radiocative material.
I think it was a huge blunder NOT to build huge thick walls around the reactors to withstand tsunami's.
Well i think building nucleair reactors is a blunder anyway... Always. As long as there is no answer to the nucleair waste problem. But if you build them anyway, then do it safe.
Here the Becky info on Aya, if not already posted:
http://www.becky.ne.jp/contents/blog/?p=4495