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    Best video of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

    By cmaukonen on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 4:25pm |

    "The Warp Drive is nothing but a useless pile of junk" - Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott

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    An expert on the Diane Rehm show said this is the largest nuclear installation not only in Japan, but the world, with 6 reactors. Also, the complex has almost 10 times the radioactive material of Chernobyl, including 'spent' fuel in the ponds, some with plutonium, not present at Chernobyl.

    The irony is the back-up pumps failed because of flooding in the basement, while the cooling ponds are failing because they cannot get water on the roof. Perhaps if the back-up system was on the roof and the cooling ponds were below sea level both problems would have been easier to solve.


    by NCD on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 7:05pm

    "I'm givin' ya all she has, cap'n, she canna' take anymore without losin' th' magnetic containment field all t'gether..."


    by jollyroger on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 9:14pm