Nuclear Reactor Pool Fire/Huge Risks in U.S. According to Unpublicized NRC Study

[Altair_IV]

11. That's correct.

In fact, we now have *pictures* of the spent fuel pool and they show intact fuel assemblies that are underwater.

The "fire" was a hypothesis that has now been disproven; somewhat akin to the "hydrogen bubble" scare during the Three Mile Island accident which was later shown to be due to someone at the NRC using the wrong formula:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/three/peopleevents/pandeAMEX88.html

On Sunday afternoon, while Carter was still there, Victor Stello found the proof he needed. They discovered that Mattson and his team of consultants had been using the wrong formula to determine the risk posed by the hydrogen bubble. Stello concluded that "hydrogen under pressure will prevent water from breaking apart into hydrogen and oxygen because it will tend to suppress the creation of more hydrogen. Without free oxygen, there can be no explosion." Plant operators began hooking devices to the containment building in order to slowly burn away the hydrogen, thereby bleeding away the bubble.

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