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		Tichy on March 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more ... If it is all designed for that, and they had to give up the reactors anyway, why don't they just wait and let the cores melt? Something doesn't add up in this optimistic scenario, it seems to me.

serichsen on March 15, 2011 [–]

Cleaning up a molten core is quite a bit more complicated than dismantling a functional reactor.

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