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by cma 1383 days ago
We're now seeing nuclear plants in a conventional warfare warzone for the first time in history.

Creators of a Texas plant thought it would never freeze (or that if it did it wouldn't matter with the government's gift of a an extremely small liability cap on nuclear), so they didn't put enough safety stuff for that scenario and had to shut down a reactor unplanned.