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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The public has a lot of misconceptions about nuclear thanks to movies like The China Syndrome and Chernobyl. [/quote]

Like the fact that the fictional meltdown at the nuclear plant featured would have not gone through the earth to CHINA?  I guess the Madagascar Syndrome didn’t do well with test audiences!

Or the fact that most of the type of fuel used in nuclear power plants are not radioactive for TEN THOUSAND YEARS. More like 300. [/quote]

Yeah, people vastly overestimate the power in a reactor. In Chernobyl it was claimed that the reactor would destroy Kiev. Reactors aren't bombs. Explosions are always non-nuclear from steam or side products like hydrogen. Holding nuclear fuel together to make a bomb is quite difficult. Once the core started to melt it was going to loose its favorable configuration and stop any nuclear chain reaction.

https://www.livescience.com/65766-chernobyl-series-science-wrong.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)[/quote]

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