There is a risk, it could explode and kill all the people in the factory
but what it won't do, what it physically cannot do, is keep burning and reacting and melting the core so it sinks through the Earth's crust, all the while spewing out deadly toxins and irradiating a wide area around the plant, and some of Wales.

So from that point of view, it's immeasurably safer.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 14:12, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

You have a similar level of risk...
...if you drop a freshly baked McDonald's apple pie onto the pavement.

They're the hottest substance known to science.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Oct 2012, 14:17, Reply)

My labs are only class 2
we can't have McDonalds apple pies in them, the safety handling systems aren't up to it. So I am unable to confirm or deny this.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 14:22, Reply)

I see that.
I just wonder, for a large reactor, just how big a bang it would be. I mean the explosion might well wipe out a whole city rather than just the factory.

Still, I appreciate, better than a massive radiation leak. Unless, of course, it's in Wales.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 14:19, Reply)

The answer is therefore obvious!
We build the fucker in Runcorn.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Oct 2012, 14:20, Reply)

Possibly as big as a fission reactor
You wouldn't build it in the city centre, that would be retarded.

You're such a retard.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 14:20, Reply)

yeah, well, it takes one to know one
and you know perfectly well what I meant.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 14:22, Reply)

That depends which city centre you have in mind.
I can think of a few which would be made more desirable with the addition of an explodey, hydrogen hot-hot thing.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Oct 2012, 14:25, Reply)