Junk NRC: Baffle Bolts Just Discovered In All NRC Executive's Heads

We live in a very volatile political environment. I contend a rather small core damage is just marginally less worst than the worst case core meltdown. Stick this in your risk calculation. Talk to me about the worst case fuel damage here and its societal ramifications to it in our interconnected world? The outsider would term it a nuclear plant meltdown or its precursor to a near big meltdown. There would be a terrible public and political overreaction to this event. It would lead to massive unnecessary overregulation of the nuclear industry. In the extremely shaky financial condition of the nuclear industry indicated by all the recent plant permanent shutdown, I bet you over 75% of the USA nuclear fleet would quickly permanently shutdown (or more).

You are right, there would be very little release of radioactivity outside the plant boundary. How do you think the next Gallop polling on nuclear power approval ratings would look like. It is at historic low levels right now. Would this affect the industry?      

NRC initial conclusion is that susceptible plants do not need to immediately shut down: 

–The consequences of baffle plate detachment during normal operation would be limited to localized fuel damage, detectable by periodic coolant activity monitoring required by the TS 

Look at how these bastards just minimize every threat. Tell me how the detaching of baffle plate would effect the large LOCA. Got any testing proving the benign results of detaching the baffling plates.

–Only certain events (large LOCA, medium LOCA, or seismic events) have the potential to rapidly detach the baffle plate due to baffle-former bolt degradation

–In such an event, the detachment of a baffle plate is not expected to pose a significant challenge to the ability to shutdown the reactor and cool the core

–Initial assessment is that the frequency of such events does not rise to the level of an “imminent safety concern” and does not require any immediate shutdown