Despite the fact that it likely contains water and a rocky core, that water is almost certainly in the form of steam or a supercritical fluid.
The water leak occurred in thousands of tubes that carry heated water from the reactor core through the plant's steam generators.
During this violent time, much of the debris would have resembled comets - dirty snowballs thought to be mostly slushy water surrounding a rocky core - slamming into Earth at velocities greater than 25 km per second (16 miles per second).
Will encourage companies to have better data security, especially for power grids, water systems, and other core critical infrastructure.
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That thinking changed on March 28, 1979, when a small valve stuck open, cooling water escaped and the reactor core of TMI's Unit 2 began to melt.
Both IHP and Ramsar have always had the nexus of water, people and wetlands at its core.
Water management is quickly emerging as a core business issue, along with other environmental, social, and governance factors.
At Purdue University in Indiana, scientists are working on a reactor-like device that uses water circulated by gravity to keep the core cool.
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The enormous heat generated by the radioactive fuel in the reactor core needs a constant flow of cold water.
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Balance is a crucial skill for surfers and one reason that many people who surf do exercises that strengthen the core in their out-of-water workouts.
These core uses (what they refer to as direct water and steam services in the commercial, residential, industrial and power sectors) eat up 12.3 quadrillion BTU per year.
They constructed levees that, in all but the most extreme circumstances, overcame gravity's force and held back hundreds of millions of tons of water that would otherwise seek a route to the Earth's core via New Orleans.
"It troubles us that Ford is making it easier for them and harder for its core constituency, " says Donald Russell, president of Klamath Water Users Association, a group of ranchers and farmers in Oregon.
Each of the reactors will be a small, modular, 125MW advanced light water reactor, which at the present time includes a design for the nuclear core and steam generator to be located at the same site, with passive safety designs.
New rules imposed by the NRC require plant operators to install or improve venting systems to limit core damage in a serious accident and set up sophisticated equipment to monitor water levels in pools of spent nuclear fuel.
The origin of this effect may lie at the boundary between the mantle, made up of viscous rock that extends 2, 900 km (1, 800 miles) below the crust, and the outer core, which is thought to be liquid iron with the consistency of water.
This evening, as the core of Sandy moves ashore, the storm will carry with it a gigantic bulge of water that will raise waters levels to the highest storm tides ever seen in over a century of record keeping, along much of the coastline of New Jersey and New York.
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Mr Wolfowitz is not a banker, an economist, a public health specialist, a water management specialist, an agronomist, a climate change specialist - any of the professional specialisations that stand at the core of the poverty challenge.
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