In a meltdown, "Recriticality also may be a concern if the control materials are left behind in the core and the relocated material breaks up in unborated water in the lower plenum." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... Neutrons were detected so perhaps you should revise your views. http://news.slashdot.org/story...

That's not what the neutron detector at the Fukushima plant gate says. You wrote "the concentration of fissile material is far too low for it to go critical" which is incorrect.

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Storage could be nice and also substitute for transmission but it may not be as large a market as they anticipate: http://www.engineering.com/Ele...

The world blew up in a thousand atomic fireballs. The first blast was set off by five terrorists. It took two million years... for some of the radioactive clouds to allow some sun in. By then, only a handful of porcine survived. The rest of the pigs had changed into hideous mutants. These mutant species floundered in the bad areas... radioactive lands that never allowed them to become boars again... and made each birth a new disaster. http://www.springfieldspringfi...

There has got to be a spam joke here someplace: In SOVIET Russia boars spam you.?.?

What sort of neutrons do you suppose are involved in a meltdown? Self-moderation of the fuel is always a danger. You don't know what you are writing about.

The siren and lights should be on whenever the computer is on.

The post has a mistake. The spent fuel can go critical.

Coal is one of the least radioactive minerals. It is mostly carbon and the carbon-14 is all decayed away.

Spent fuel pools can go critical. The waste has a high enough concentration.

A high speed rail link between Seattle and Savannah would link the two coasts in a new way and might overcome all the strange posturing which hurt single state projects during the recovery.

Pure fantasy.