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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima No. 1 can’t keep its head above tainted water [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)It's corium. It's slag. You've seen the corium from Chernobyl, right? It cooled in place, looks like a frozen lava flow. (that that wasn't blown, burning, into the sky directly (something like 80% of the mass of the core))
That material is pretty much stuck in place. Most of it is still in the catchment. Again, the radiation of the corium itself will reveal the position of the mass of corium. If you know that the corium is spread beyond the containment, get your ass over to CNN and present your case, because there's no evidence of that in the public domain at this moment.
(If it didn't burn through 24-18 months ago, it's not going to.)
The radioactive material carried by the water from the containment is not equal to "cores have escaped the containment", period. You are using meanings for these terms you've made up in your own mind.