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The problem is core temps may melt containment vessel. (Telescopemaker)

I know this is hear say but I have a friend (Head Engineer) that recently retired from the Fermi Nuclear plant in Michigan. I asked him what his take was and his response was, " given the circumstances and the duration of the containment things do not look good at all. (TJPatzo)

Yeah, things are obviously bad. But RPVs are designed to withstand a meltdown. Which doesn't necessarily mean that its guaranteed but for instance, in the Three Mile Island incident, there was a meltdown in the core without breaching containment, and reactors are better designed now. As long as containment is not breached, then things will be ok - relatively speaking.... (DJcobraClick)

"Residual heat" is 7% of the reactor output right after shutdown. It declines very rapidly, but it's only been a couple of days. The output of this reactor was rated at 784 MW, so a few percent of that is still an awful lot. (hbowman108)

Oh, and for people who want to be insulting to Japan on this thread, reactor 1, which blew up first, was a General Electric reactor. (hbowman108)

Well i hope General Electric will be demoted after that. Private Electric sounds pretty good for him given the circumstances. :) (maxqlman)