While thinking about Fukushima's baffling steam, I recalled the Cecil Kelley criticality accident and the tea leaf paradox. In that accident, a near critical mixture went critical upon mixing. Maybe some physical process like that happened at Fukushima to cause water to heat to steam.
Beyond that, the Kelley accident is its own interesting mystery....why was there so much plutonium in the mixing tank?
Makes for good reading on a slow weekend.
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