Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7971816-20170302041449/@comment-28398720-20170310194319

Did the 100+ nuclear reactors in North America magically disappeared? Someone on reddit mention that the show reactors are some sort of supper next gen reactors that suppose to be able operate for 100 years independently. (and then in stead of shutting down they all go boom at the same time ..)

Although I don't know if that is true and where these super reactors will be located, only that ALIE calculated that they would pose a danger to our friends.

This is how it's going to work. The reactors are burning and pumping radiation into the atmosphere bcause their fuel is hot and is contained in one location. A blast would disperse the fuel and put the fire out, this would radiate the area around the reactor. Since most of the burning reactors are in europa and asia, it would not be a big problem for north america. Reactors use nuclear "fuel" to sustained nuclear chain reaction, to protect the environment they are encased in containment structures, shit happen when for whatever reason containment fail. For example in Fukashima coolant system failed, thus the reactor overheated and underwent a meltdown..

The only scenarios in which fire involved is if


 * 1) fire breaks outside and threatens containment, and helping crack pandora box doesn't seem like a good idea.
 * 2) if containment is already breached and nuclear material burn spreading radiation upward... I don't know what will happen. But A nuke is certain to breach all containment (of the reactor and any stored fuel on site), it might put off a fire ( and might start few others) but might cause more harm by vaporizing and uplifting a whole lot of radioactive material into the atmosphere with mushroom cloud.

Anyway I don't know what will happen, but nuke shit up is rarely the solution ;) and weather system to spread radiation far and wide e.g. Fukashima radiation reached USA coast and Chernobil reached the whole of europe.. and those suppose to be super reactors..