The North Korean nuclear tests have given rise to a new concern: the underground site where the nukes get detonated could collapse with a resulting massive release of radioactive debris into the atmosphere. The radioactive cloud would surely contaminate the area around the blast site, but it also would spread across the region into China, Japan and South Korea and, eventually, around the world.
This is the view of some Chinese scientists who have been monitoring the blasts. It's nothing certain, but the odds of a collapse increase with the size of the bombs being detonated, and the NK's keep doing just that.
It's hard to imagine that the NK's would be careless and clueless enough to cause such a catastrophe. If they can build the bombs, they ought to be able to take precautions against doing so in a way that will cause a calamity. Still, the pressure on the NK scientists to produce results must be intense, so they may be cutting corners in what they are doing.
Let's just hope that if this sort of collapse of the bomb site actually occurs, Kim Jung Un is at the site to personally monitor the explosion.
This is the view of some Chinese scientists who have been monitoring the blasts. It's nothing certain, but the odds of a collapse increase with the size of the bombs being detonated, and the NK's keep doing just that.
It's hard to imagine that the NK's would be careless and clueless enough to cause such a catastrophe. If they can build the bombs, they ought to be able to take precautions against doing so in a way that will cause a calamity. Still, the pressure on the NK scientists to produce results must be intense, so they may be cutting corners in what they are doing.
Let's just hope that if this sort of collapse of the bomb site actually occurs, Kim Jung Un is at the site to personally monitor the explosion.
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