Burning reactor fuel could have worsened the Fukushima disaster

[NNadir]

8. I've spent thousands of hours reading all sorts of reports about nuclear technology.

I know very well the chemistry and physics of melted nuclear fuel, what scientists call "corium."

There have been several examples of the formation of corium, at TMI, at Chernobyl and at Fukushima. The data shows that the evolution of this corium didn't kill as many people as died yesterday from air pollution.

And yet, and yet and yet...we hear about all these things constantly. A great deal of fossil fuel is burned to run computers and servers that want to tell us all about these corium events.

My questions involve people who haven't read very much at all about nuclear engineering at all engaging in innuendo.

We can certainly spend billions of dollars improving the "safety" of nuclear technologies. We can also spend the same billions of dollars giving the two billion people on this planet who have no access to clean sanitation improved sanitary systems.

Which would save more lives per billion dollars? Improved sewers in Nigeria, or all new engineering for all nuclear plants?

Don't advise me to read a report please. You've raised the issue of nuclear safety, in a manner as I regard specious, and I'm trying to find out what you actually know.

Thanks in advance for your response and best regards,

NNadir