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Old 01-09-2019, 12:34 PM   #4453 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by All Darc View Post
I imagined all nuclear reactor power plants used steam.

Wasn't Fukushima's reactor one of the kind that use passive nuclear safety ?
Correct me if I'm wrong,but I believe that Fukushima was not a passive system,and their plan-B was the stand-alone generators to run the water pumps for reactor cooling.
They had engineered for the tsunami okay,but never imagined that the coastline would drop,flooding the generator infrastructure.
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