Nuclear power in a six-pack
Should This Exist?
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What if It Meant a Small Scale Nuclear Plant?
Small scale nuclear reactors promise to be safer and more resistant to melt down. The question is, how fast can the temperature inside the reactor be brought down? In march 19 79, a mechanical or perhaps electrical breakdown at four a m triggered a series of cascading failures at the three mile island power plant on the susquehanna river in pennsylvania. Radiation had penetrated the four foot thick walls of that building and was detected as far as one mile away.
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