re: #24 Ojoe

There is A LOT of heat and it keeps generating even if you successfully shut down the core, because the radioactive daughter products of the main uranium fissions still keep decaying and producing heat. You can’t really totally turn it off; the laws of physics have no appeal. You have to cool it or else.

It’s a Balrog.

I heard that on a documentary about what would happen if all of human kind suddenly disappeared that the Nuclear power plants could take care of them selves for about 5 years. But after that if no one educated enough to run help them doesn’t come they will melt down.

Which is why I don’t want any Evangelical Christians in nuclear power plants it should be illegal. ;)