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mitchty
5047 days ago
How could it have been like Chernobyl? The Fukushima reactors didn't have graphite moderators.
Totally different reactor technologies, equivocating them is spurious at best.
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tedunangst
5046 days ago
Using a totally different reactor technology strikes me as an example of good engineering.
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Daniel_Newby
5046 days ago
The Chernobyl reactor also had no containment vessel, so the initial core failure blew a cloud of radioactive fire into the air. The Fukushima containment vessel kept most of the crap in one place until it could melt into a cohesive mass.
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