Nuclear power plants built in the ocean? New design increases safety - Interesting concept

04/16/2014 - 00:00

By David L. Chandler -

When an earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant complex in 2011, neither the quake nor the inundation caused the ensuing contamination. Rather, it was the aftereffects — specifically, the lack of cooling for the reactor cores, due to a shutdown of all power at the station — that caused most of the harm.

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