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Stricken Japan nuclear plant rocked by 2nd blast
Yahoo/Finance ^ | 3/14/11 | Eric Talmadge and Shino Yuasa

Posted on 03/14/2011 8:08:53 AM PDT by EBH

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To: Netizen

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Weeks on a partial meltdown. TMI to 5-6 months to cool.


61 posted on 03/14/2011 3:09:34 PM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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All light-water-reactor fuel forms Pu — it is an expected product of irradiating the non-fissile Uranium. Typical fuel creates Pu. MOX (a mix of uranium-dioxide and Pu-oxide) starts off with a non-zero amount of Pu. It is normal to burn Pu in a light-water-reactor.
62 posted on 03/14/2011 5:20:33 PM PDT by sefarkas (Why vote Democrat Lite?)
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Japan is becoming Atlantis.

I hope the Japanese survive.

63 posted on 03/14/2011 5:26:36 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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