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To: Qbert

I think he is correct on this, containment appears to be a identified weakness in this circa 1971 design.

47 posted on 03/13/2011 12:36:08 PM PDT by rlmorel (How to relate to Liberals? Take a Conservative, remove all responsibility...logic...)

To: rlmorel

“I think he is correct on this, containment appears to be a identified weakness in this circa 1971 design.”

—I’m just correcting the claim that the Fukushima reactors are BWR-1 types. They’re actually all BWR-3 and higher:

As for containment flaws with this design- could well be, I don’t know. I’ll defer to the experts here.

50 posted on 03/13/2011 12:56:22 PM PDT by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)

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