Reply #164: Nobody said controlled. CONTAINED. [View All]

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At TMI the core overheated and it partially melted. However it never melted through reactor pressure vessel.

However EVEN IF IT HAD there is a airtight containment building made of 7 feet of steel reinforced concrete and 6" sold steel liner.

The radiation would have been CONTAINED inside the CONTAINMENT.

Got it?

That is kinda the reason we build containment structures strong enough to survive a hydrogen explosion or impact with jet liner.
So in any serious accident the radiation would be contained INSIDE containment.



See the pair of can shaped building made of heavy concrete in the middle of photo. That is the containment building which is airtight and houses the reactor and fuel pool. The square building to the left is turbine building.