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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I have questions, wouldn't sea water ruin the reactors and prevent them from ever restarting?
If you have a runaway reaction where the temperature is heading to what 5000 degrees, and you sprayed it with sea water wouldn't you just be cooling the outside of the reactor pile, but the inside would continue to super heat?
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Yup. Plans like this are only activated in emergancies, as they permanently ruin the components (much like the "Quench" option of an MRI scanner, where the MRI overloads itself, if that helps).