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FBaggins

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Sun Mar-13-11 01:22 PM
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10. They ARE so designed.

Edited on Sun Mar-13-11 01:36 PM by FBaggins

There haven't been ANY "runaway reactions" reported in Japan. The reactors were shut down almost immediately. (Chernobyl DID "run away", but was of a different design).

It's just that decay heat can still be substantial and, if left uncooled, can still melt parts of the core (all without a runaway reaction... or really any fission at all).

On edit - of course that's "fission".

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