melting

When you consider that this all boils down to melting off ice, that's not so bad, really.

It's the fact that something is leaking that is the problem, not the melting of the fuel itself.

11 mm or less over the last 2 decades!The article claims 11 mm of water solely from melting ice sheets.

"I've got a script checking the site...but the site is just melting", apparently without a trace of irony

"But if we continue to observe melting events like this in upcoming years, it will be worrisome.

Near the very end:"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average.

Middle classes are already melting massively in many countries.

A material with twice the melting point of tantalum halfnium carbide sounds like an ablative heat shield to me.

Every nuclear plant in the world is one minute from 90 tons of fuel melting into the basement if the water flow stops and fall-back systems fail.

You can, however, compare to other anglo-centric melting-pot countries, and the US experience is still vastly worse.

" Really they were just all running together like melting crayons in the global namespace of possibility.

Besides creating electricity, there are many potential industrial uses of magma:"Magma serves as a heat source, replacing fuel in magma smelters, magma forges, magma glass furnaces, and magma kilns...Other uses for magma include obsidian farming, trap design, melting ice, igniting fires, and even garbage disposal.