reply to post by EvanB
Well, no, there isn't. I may also be all wrong on this and I admit it.. I have far more hours of work than sleep for a few days now. I've little
more to go by on solid information that what I learned in a 20+ hour raw historical audio book about the Manhattan Project and the Nuclear programs of
the U.S. and Soviets for the years following the war. It was detailed beyond anything I ever wanted...but I sure learned a lot, whether I liked it or
not. lol... Oh the joys of long haul trucking and 10-14 hour days with nothing to do.
The impression I have gotten from this and what I think we all pick up here and there...is that the fireball radius obliterates everything that small
section touches. Just...gone...vaporized. At least that would be the wording I've seen repeatedly. Of course, that also blows straight UP for 10's
of thousands of feet and fall out would be rough but out to sea and into the water if they played things right. How would those cores compared to the
HUGE shots in the South Pacific? ...
It seems to me though that radioactive ash and material coming out of the inside of the detonation itself would be easier to handle than the fuel and
reactor cores sitting there, intact and open to the blue skies after buildings fail? Someone correct me, but if the building fall apart, no one could
even approach the cores sitting like that, could they? Is that level of radiation survivable, long enough to accomplish anything?
* I suppose it's important to reiterate that I only bring this up at this point for something after the reactor buildings might lose all structural
integrity. At that point, I honestly don't see how the world has much to lose