Scientists to create controlled nuclear meltdown in Japan

[LiberalArkie]

TOKYO: A team of nuclear scientists in Japan said Thursday they plan to create a controlled reactor meltdown in a bid to learn how to deal with future disasters.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it was working on a project using a scaled-down version of a reactor which they would deliberately cause to malfunction at a research facility in Ibaraki, north of Tokyo.

"We want to study exactly how meltdowns happen and apply what we will learn to help improve ways to deal with severe accidents in the future," said a spokesman for the government-backed engineering agency.

The meltdown project, which will begin some time in the fiscal year that starts in April, will use a small fuel rod that that will undergo a very rapid fission process, the spokesman said.


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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/scientists-to-create/948474.html

[snooper2]

1. Their going to melt planet Earth!

It will sink into the ground and reach the core and explode the planet!

[RC]

2. Good. Maybe that will put an end to all the Woo.

[awake]

3. No but there is a chance of it could sink into the ground & contaminate their ground water supply.

[snooper2]

4. But it wouldn't stop! They are going to kill us!

Just like when they knocked the moon slightly off orbit with that fucking missile!

[awake]

5. It might wake up Godzilla!!!!

[snooper2]

6. Or make worms turn into a new one!

Wormzilla!

[NYC_SKP]

7. Well, if the starfish aren't already melting maybe they will now!

[BlueToTheBone]

8. You might have thought they would have created this

experiment about 40 years ago.