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mitchty
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The Panic Over Fukushima
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.
tedunangst
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Using a totally different reactor technology strikes me as an example of good engineering.
Daniel_Newby
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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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Totally different reactor technologies, equivocating them is spurious at best.