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Join Date: Jun 2010
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This disaster in Japan is a disaster that just keeps disaster-ing.
This is quite a long article, but here is the gist ... The plant was built in an old river bed. It rains in Japan ... water runs downhill The company that built this GE reactor did not consider "what if ..." The earthquake broke underground drainage pipes The "ice wall" technology is untested and would cost ~ $1 billion The company is near bankruptcy The government basically opposes bankruptcy due to effect on economy Washington Post Chico Harlan 10/21/13 For Tepco and Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, toxic water stymies cleanup Quote:
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