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yortsed snacilbuper

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Mon Apr 25, 2016, 12:25 PM Apr 2016

In Chernobyl, an Arch Caps 30 Years of Work to Contain Nuclear Fallout


If all goes to plan, the new structure—an arch more than 350 feet high and 500 feet long—will be slid into place late next year over the damaged reactor and its nuclear fuel, creating a leak-tight barrier designed to contain radioactive substances for at least the next 100 years.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/in-chernobyl-an-arch-caps-30-years-of-work-to-contain-nuclear-fallout/ar-BBscgWl?ocid=spartanntp
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In Chernobyl, an Arch Caps 30 Years of Work to Contain Nuclear Fallout (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2016 OP
Leak Tight. Octafish Apr 2016 #1
Last week's Scorpion TV show was about this TexasProgresive Apr 2016 #2

TexasProgresive

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2. Last week's Scorpion TV show was about this
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 12:42 PM
Apr 2016

of course the stuff that happened was completely improbably if not impossible.

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