Chew
Senior Member.
There is a recent spate of YouTube videos declaring or JAQing if Fukushima is responsible for The Blob.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fukushima+blob
Evidently radiation can do anything!
Nishihara et al ran the numbers on various parameters of the 3 melted cores and the 4 spent fuel pools including the decay heat:
http://jolissrch-inter.tokai-sc.jaea.go.jp/pdfdata/JAEA-Data-Code-2012-018.pdf#page=128
Here is how the total decay heat of the 3 cores varied over time:
Integrating the decay heat for the last 4 years yields 178 TJ.
The Blob is 1000 miles in diameter and 300 feet deep. The specific heat capacity of seawater is 3.993 J·g-1·K-1.
If the 3 cores at Fukushima had been ejected into the Pacific Star Trek-style at the moment of shutdown and had somehow managed to stay afloat near the surface it would have raised the volume of water of The Blob by 0.00000024° C after 4 years.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fukushima+blob
Evidently radiation can do anything!
Nishihara et al ran the numbers on various parameters of the 3 melted cores and the 4 spent fuel pools including the decay heat:
http://jolissrch-inter.tokai-sc.jaea.go.jp/pdfdata/JAEA-Data-Code-2012-018.pdf#page=128
Here is how the total decay heat of the 3 cores varied over time:
Integrating the decay heat for the last 4 years yields 178 TJ.
The Blob is 1000 miles in diameter and 300 feet deep. The specific heat capacity of seawater is 3.993 J·g-1·K-1.
If the 3 cores at Fukushima had been ejected into the Pacific Star Trek-style at the moment of shutdown and had somehow managed to stay afloat near the surface it would have raised the volume of water of The Blob by 0.00000024° C after 4 years.