Uhhh... lemme rephrase a bit. It has to be lead-heavy concrete.
Perhaps that is what they should be doing with the sewage sludge rather than selling it off to to neighboring Nations.
I hope the events down south don't, well, 'go south' as the saying goes.
YouTube - Arnie Gundersen - Nebraska Nuclear Plant: Emergency Level 4 & About to Get Worse - June 14, 2011
Bigger wave @ 11:30 means the protection offered by the safety systems will 'go down' should the up-river dams burst. Since the diesel gensets would be down because they were not built on a barge (in the middle of 'Kansas) that will melt the same as the ones in Japan.
They would be better off blowing it into rubble and let the 5 or so floods wash it into the GOM. As loose as the soil is what would prevent it from being carved out like the scablands of the Pacific Northwest or is the terrain slope too low for flash-flood speeds? The vid also indicated that this current flood could last all summer even without any dams breaking so that would also play a factor in being able to keep the rods cool. Water would not be a problem during the flood and any releases would be swept downstream quite quickly but what happens when the flood recedes and the flooded areas will never be able to be put back into working order, will the rods be 'cold' by then?
This Will most likely wipe out a huge proportion of the sea life on earth for the next 2000 years.
Make no mistake, this event will change the world for ever. Humans are dirty little cancers
I'm still waiting for science to release some pics of the new species of sparrows that live in the Chernobyl Sarcophagus. Was that part of the original plan in the design? Sad to think that is how the Japanese will consider 'air-tight' should they get the chance to seal up their mess.
In a somewhat related subject, should the plans for a 'hot-particle' engine (HPE) be made priority or open-source as creating a 'capture device' has 1,000's of design possibilities all the way back to 'prairie schooners' using sails to capture larger amounts of particles. (scrapping said sails would be a task the 'elderly' are well suited for and they seem to go to sleep before anything melts inside them)