Meltdown at Fukushima | Pressure | 2
Against The Odds
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Isawa's Plan to Vent Excess Steam From the Reactor
Izawa spent hours poring over blueprints searching for way to vent excess steam from inside the reactor. It's been nearly half a day since they lost power, and every hour that passes only increases the chances of a rupture or explosion. Beneath the reactor core is a doughnut shaped ring called the suppression chamber. Normally, water enters there from a pipe, then flows into the reactor cores. But ikuisawa wants to reverse that flow, pull steam out of the core and into the suppression chamber,. They can use pipes connected to the chamber to vent it outside. Once they do that, the steam will be released.
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