I was all giggles watching this "documentary" (below the fold)...they are focused on Fukushima's #4 spent fuel pool, so they filmmakers ask an expert to estimate how hot the fuel would get if the pool's water was lost. He estimates 140C...but that's too low for the expectations of the filmmakers, so they ask others. The estimates they get range from 100-300C. They then test how the fuel will behave when heated. Do they test the rods at 300C or lower? No...they test at almost 800C and warn us about the resulting cladding damage and the inferred spread of massive amounts of radioactivity.
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