It's christmas at ground zeroFollow

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/news/shownews.jsp?content=w121608A

Wheee, things explody at russian nuclear plants.. where have we seen that before? at least this one wasn't a meltdown

Yet george bush couldn't open a russian door.


...Yep, they make us look awesome

Forget about the sunken submarines they refused to accept our help in, the poor economy, the crappy conditions of it's nuclear power plants! BUSH CAN'T OPEN A DOOR.


I hate bush as much as the next man, but seriously.

It was a real, locked door.

At any rate: after the little mishap at Chernobyl the initial reports were also "no radiation leaked, no problem, LOOK! A PUPPY!"

I'm not saying it's the same situation (what's a smelter?), but I'd be leery about accepting the first reports we get as complete truth.

Yeah. Kinda my thought as well. A smelter isn't involved in any way that I can think of in the actual operation of a nuclear power plant. But presumably would be used in the generation of the nuclear pellots used to power said plant.

I suppose they could do the purification on the same batch of land where they have the plant itself. Nothing says you have to do them in different locations. But an explosion in a smelter would not (or should not!) have any effect on the plants operation directly, and certainly would not involve any sort of meltdown or large scale accident.


IIRC, when Chernobl happened, they couldn't exactly hide the radiation leak. It was detected all over the globe pretty much immediately. So if there is more then they're saying, it's still got to be pretty minor.

If it's a breeder reactor it could be used to melt the plutonium created by the reaction into ingots or slugs

Forget about the sunken submarines they refused to accept our help in, the poor economy, the crappy conditions of it's nuclear power plants!

See what happens when you force acountry to Capitalism for no particular reason?