> > Japan has nuclear reactors on a known fault line. So does the USA. In fact multiple > > reactors on fault lines. > > > > Numerous other American reactors sit on or near earthquake faults. > > > > > > Does this strike anyone as a particularly "doh!" moment ? Or suicidal or insane in > > any way ? > > 30 seconds in. First collapse I've ever seen to create a shockwave. > > http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.nuclear/index.html?hpt=T1 > > Sorry boys, time to suck up the pride and call a spade a spade. Take pride in the > fact that had this happened in any other country, there wouldn't be a reactor > standing. It's gone, get the hell outta there.
Whoa there, Hoss:
"Officials say the explosion was caused by hydrogen interacting with oxygen outside the reactor. The hydrogen was formed when the superheated fuel rods came in contact with water being poured over the reactor to cool it and prevent a meltdown."