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A future crisis could be the next meltdown of an atomic power plant as seen in F**ushima. More and more earthquakes come across the world, included Europe as seen in Italy this month. In this case, Europe's atomic power plants aren't safe any longer. One meltdown has disastrous consequences for the wh*** world.
Some facts:
In general a nuclear meltdown would occurr if the reactor loses its coolant.
The effects of a nuclear meltdown depend on the safety features designed into a reactor. A modern reactor is designed both to make a meltdown unlikely, and to contain one should it occur.
In a modern reactor, a nuclear meltdown, whether partial or total, should be contained inside the reactor's containment structure. Thus while the meltdown will severely damage the reactor itself, possibly contaminating the wh*** structure with highly radioactive material, a meltdown alone should not lead to significant radiation release or danger to the public.
In practice, however, a nuclear meltdown is often part of a larger chain of disasters although there have been so few meltdowns in the history of nuclear power that there is not a large pool of statistical information from which to draw a credible conclusion as to what "often" happens in such circ**stances. For example, in the Chernobyl accident, by the time the core melted, there had already been a large steam explosion and graphite fire and major release of radioactive contamination as with almost all Soviet reactors, there was no containment structure at Chernobyl. Also, before a possible meltdown occurs, pressure can already be rising in the reactor, and to prevent a meltdown by restoring the cooling of the core, operators are allowed to reduce the pressure in the reactor by releasing steam into the environment. This enables them to inject additional cooling water into the reactor again.
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