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Wikipedia has some details on the typical interactions here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)#Corium...

The summary is that yes, typically concrete would melt at temperatures anywhere in the range that you'd expected a molten core to be at.

My understanding is that newer designs have a "core catcher" under the reactor made of something more resistant than concrete, but this unit doesn't.




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