Talk:Corium (nuclear reactor)

Addition request
This article should be translated to Japanese, as soon as possible. Someone in atomic physics/engineering, please do! Tsukubarian (talk) 02:50, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

seriously?
This article should be moved to LFCM or fuel containing mixture (nuclear meltdown) or something similar, as soon as possible. It seems a little inappropriate to keep a totally meaningless vanity name for nuclear reactor waste material, now that there are very different types of failed reactor in use. Continuing to use the vanity name 'corium' when referring to either Chernobyl or the current situation is only going to create an additional layer of obfuscation, and that is the last thing anyone needs at this point. The above request illustrates EXACTLY why use of the term 'corium' should be heavily discouraged. Zaphraud (talk) 01:17, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Two years on and the world hasn't lost a wink of sleep over this issue. 87.114.215.111 (talk) 17:55, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Fukushima
Is there a reason why there no mention of Fukushima? Redhanker (talk) 23:22, 29 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Presumably, Fukushima I ("Fukushima Dai-ichi") has not been added yet. It should be, at the earliest opportunity, as many of the Fukushima observed events strikingly illustrate the process of corium in meltdown, which TEPCO now admits to have occurred in Reactors 1, 2, and 3.  Any volunteers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.167.61.187 (talk • contribs) 17:45, May 30, 2011
 * the paragraph on it is scrambled - the sentence with temperatures in doesn't make sense at all. Midgley (talk) 16:21, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Photo
One of the final paragraphs begins with "it is possible to see in the photo shown below that the corium (molten core) will cool and change to a solid with time. (a) there is no photo below (b) even if there was, how could a photo show this? 87.114.215.111 (talk) 17:55, 1 May 2013 (UTC)


 * You can see photos of the Chernobyl "Elephant's Foot" at this interesting article: Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot,” Is Still Lethal -- &oelig; &trade; 04:51, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

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SL-1 incident
The 1961 SL-1 reactor incident is a good early disaster that is well documented but better video of the 90 minutes of film is needed to tell the story. My IQ &#62;&#62; 160 (talk) 21:04, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

etymology/origin?
It might be good to have something about the origin/etymology of the word and if there are examples of corium predating the Three Mile Island accident. The Wiktionary definition [] says it was coined in 1974, but I don't see any cites. Rmd1023 (talk) 13:52, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Request: Add lifespan and cleanup of Corium
As a reader, I would like to know not only how corium is created, but also how it is solved/resolved. Where have they cleaned up corium, how effectively, and how often do they? I just imagine a timeline of corium from creation -> heat loss -> eventual end of radioactive isotopes half lives or through human intervention. Xecten (talk) 21:55, 5 September 2023 (UTC)