Talk:Steam explosion

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The worst case reactor accident (in terms of widespread distribution of respirable radioactive release) is NOT (usually) melt through the basemat -it's a steam explosion /fci firing the head through the containment (alpha mode failure in Rasmussen's WASH1400 nomenclature)

Can that nomenclature be found online? It'd be good to reference it. I was viewing the melt-through-the-basement as a preliminary to a steam explosion having the same effect, plus groundwater contamination, but I have no real analysis behind that. So if you want to update it, please do! And it'd be nice to have a (grim) article on Nuclear reactor failure modes... --Andrew 21:33, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)