Posted by Dave Speed on Friday, March 26, 2004 at 10:30PM :
In Reply to: Re: Our reactors,.... posted by MoparNorm on Friday, March 26, 2004 at 7:11PM :
The memory is the second thing to go; I forgot what the first one was ... <grin>
Sorry, not steam, hydrogen/ From the ANS:
"When the reactor's core was uncovered on the morning of March 28, a high-temperature chemical reaction between water and the metal tubes holding the nuclear fuel pellets had created hydrogen gas"
ref:http://www.ans.org/pi/sptopics/tmi/brief.html
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