Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "China’s MELTDOWN-PROOF Nuclear Reactor" video.

  1. ​ @JMurph2015  the containment vessel isn't a skyscraper though. Earthquakes aren't an Ice Age style crack that comically rips through objects. It's just a large shake. Tall buildings will be whiplashed because of how motion is transferred to the foundations and then makes the lower floors move and pull the floors above, then stop moving and the higher floors are still swinging. This causes cracks in concrete because it will see non-compessive loads. We fight this with foundations that minimize shaking, bracing that supports the load across floors, and dampers that minimize movement in the top floors. The containment vessel is more like a bunker.
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  2. ​ @klardfarkus3891  the reactors at Fukushima survived a worst case natural disaster. The problem was not the reactor design.
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