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Is the Nuclear Material From the Accident a Warson?
Nuclear material from the accident is not necessarily what some reports are saying was hit. The power plant operated for about 20 years, and so itt had spent fuel that had to be cooled and stored. Once you turned off a reactor, immediately it goes from a hundred % power,. if that's where you were, to about five%. That five% declines hourly, but hour by hour, until a within a few days, you're hat a very, very tiny fraction of original heat in the reactor corpe. But you've still got to cool it or it can start to melt. What happened in fukashima is that they, they lost the ability to cool it, and
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