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FishmanGeertz
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If most of the fuel assembly was melted (as shown in the below image) in the three mile island reactor #2, how were they able to insert the control rods? I would imagine the channels in which the rods are inserted through would have bee severely malformed, thus making it impossible to insert the rods all the way.
Are there other ways of permanently shutting down and cooling a nuclear reactor without using the boron control rods, and even if most of the core has been melted?
Off-topic, but is the ruined reactor at the TMI plant still inside it's containment vessel, or did they remove and replace it with another reactor?
http://www.inl.gov/threemileisland/i/core-damage.gif
Are there other ways of permanently shutting down and cooling a nuclear reactor without using the boron control rods, and even if most of the core has been melted?
Off-topic, but is the ruined reactor at the TMI plant still inside it's containment vessel, or did they remove and replace it with another reactor?
http://www.inl.gov/threemileisland/i/core-damage.gif