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AtheistCrusader

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1. What a mess.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 03:24 PM
Feb 2013

However, the fuel racks look pretty intact, so, from what can be seen of them, that's good. Or, less bad anyway.

What a mess. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #1
Agree: Less bad is better than bad. But, Fukushima Daiichi NPP, is really, really, really bad. Octafish Feb 2013 #12
spent fuel rod tank (the moon pool) padruig Feb 2013 #2
This disasterous design isn't unique to Fukushima. There are similar plants in rhett o rick Feb 2013 #6
Ongoing corrosion give the pool less than 9 years before being exposed to air. Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #3
The situation is dire and it's not being reported accurately, thanks to TEPCO and Friends. Octafish Feb 2013 #13
Agree, your looking at a huge chuck of Japan and poisoning vast swaths of the ocean, not to mention Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #14
Hopefully, this will be the end for MOX Fuel formercia Feb 2013 #4
A Public Service Announcement on Plutonium Octafish Feb 2013 #10
Nasty Stuff formercia Feb 2013 #21
K&R stonecutter357 Feb 2013 #5
I think I saw Waldo! another_liberal Feb 2013 #7
Well, we can't handle this... B Stieg Feb 2013 #8
You hit the nuclear nail on the head. Octafish Feb 2013 #9
Ours probably aren't much different. Prove me wrong...PLEASE! judesedit Feb 2013 #11
We have about 16 working reactors of the same generation and design. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #19
And Japan decided they were going to open up some of their nuke plants again... MrMickeysMom Feb 2013 #15
So to be brief SCVDem Feb 2013 #16
You mean like as in "Where's the corium?" johnnyreb Feb 2013 #17
Through the RPV but not far into the containment. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #20
What a total fucking nightmare. blackspade Feb 2013 #18
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