#hydrovolcanic

[earthstory]

Aerial views of Ubehebe crater, Death Valley National Park - this crater is a maar, formed when water intersected groundwater and the explosions blasted away the sedimentary layers above. You can see the exposed sedimentary layers in the crater wall and debris from the eruptions that is now slowly falling back in.

simonology.landscapes

... from the recent trip to the USA: Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley National Park 🌋 Music:

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[childofsodom]

Hydrovolcanic Landforms -

Jabal Bayda in Saudi Arabia

[geofpetch]

Fukushima ‘China syndrome,’ hydrovolcanic explosion possible.

The molten core of several Fukushima Daiichi reactors is sinking through the Earth’s crust and appears to be in early stages of a “China Syndrome,” according to Uehara Haruo, architect of Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor No. 3 and former president of Saga University, Fukushima Diary reports.

Haruo stated that considering 8-eight months have passed in the decommissioning process without any improvement, it is inevitable that melted fuel went out of the container vessel and sank underground, which is called China syndrome.

If fuel has reached an underground water vein, it will cause contamination of underground water, soil, and sea, he said. “Moreover, if the underground water vein keeps being heated for long time, a massive hydrovolcanic explosion will be caused.”

More chilling is that he also warned radioactive debris is spreading in Pacific Ocean. Tons of the debris has reached the Marshall Islands as of 11/15/2011.

Back in the early 90's I gave an address to the Nuclear Power Plant CFO Retreat on the costs of nuclear plant decommissioning concluding that it was not quantifiable - even though they were required by legislation to fund nuclear plant decommissioning trust funds with a quantified target amount. With regret the possibility of a Fukushima-scale incident did not enter into the equation, nor the possibility of the real cost of a decommissioning fail.