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Tremors exceeded design limits for 3 reactors
NHK World ^ | April 1, 2011

Posted on 04/01/2011 8:22:34 PM PDT by SteveH

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To: RipSawyer; NVDave
I once knew a process engineer at Texas Instruments who specified the belt speed of a thick film firing furnace in "Furlongs per Fortnight"...
21 posted on 04/02/2011 12:42:00 PM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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BTW - we’re still here.

Just barely. TMI broke out of the reactor vessel at a bottom seal. One of the Control Rod Assembly Tubes was all that kept it from getting to the concrete. Was in a pdf report linked on an early thread.

22 posted on 04/02/2011 4:48:41 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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