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No Fuel In the Fukushima Reactor #1
An anonymous reader writes To nobody's surprise, the Japanese press reports that a new way to look at the inside of one of the Fukushima 1 damaged reactors has shown the fuel is not in place. Engineers have not been able to develop a machine to directly see the exact location of the molten fuel, hampered by extremely high levels of radiation in and around the reactors, but a new scan technique using muons (details on the method in the media are missing) have shown the fuel is not in its place. While Tepco's speculation is that the fuel may be at the bottom of the reactor, it is a safe bet that at least some of it has burned through and has gone on to create an Uruguay syndrom.
Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.
The highly radioactive material must of melted through the center of the Earth and appeared in Uruguay. What else could it be?
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What on earth is "an Uruguay syndrom", and why does google have no idea either.
And I thought that /.ers were supposed to be smart.
An Uruguay Syndrom[e] is very similar to Collins' Syndrome, except that it is much bigger and involves radiation from uranium fission instead of Cesium/Deuterium. Think of it as an Atlantis Complex times 100.
There, was that so hard?
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
I think they are trying to be clever and play on the term China Syndrome, where the fuel melts all the way through the earth to it's Antipodal point.
Thank you as I had no idea at all what this was. I think somewhere Dennis Miller is reading this and saying "Even by my standards that's obscure."
Thanks for posting the exact same thing as the ten people before you. Had I not had this 11th explanation, I don't think I would have understood it.
As Yosemite Sam put it:
“Great horny toadies! I musta dug clean through to Chiney!”
Ford Prefect: How are you feeling?
Arthur Dent: Like a military academy. Bits of me keep passing out. Ford? If I were to ask you where the hell we were, would I regret it?
Ford Prefect: We're safe.
Arthur Dent: Ah. Good.
Ford Prefect: We're in a cabin of one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
Arthur Dent: Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of the word "safe" that I hadn't previously been aware of.
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Thank you. I'm now glad I never finished my hole through to the other side of the earth. My parents would have been loads of pissed when the Indian ocean drained out into our yard.
Is there such a thing as "northern Antarctica"? Would that just be the entire coast of Antarctica?
To be a bit more charitable, you can find out where something is through the process of enumerating all the places where it is not. This could take a while.
Main difference being that it never actually burns through to Uruguay, because it stops when it hits the last letter of syndrome.