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wavepsycheon Mar 30, 2011 5:35pm
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RE: I should have read the article
RE: I should have read the articleThe recreticality issue surfacing everywhere, not just the Time article.
See below from Reuters ...
Hundreds of engineers have been toiling for nearly three weeks to cool the Fukushima plant's reactors and avert a catastrophic meltdown of fuel rods, although the situation appears to have moved back from that nightmare scenario.
In a potentially negative development, Flory said the agency had heard there might be "recriticality" at the plant, in which a nuclear chain reaction would resume, even though the reactors were automatically shut down at the time of the quake.
That could lead to more radiation releases, but it would not be "the end of the world," Flory said. "Recriticality does not mean that the reactor is going to blow up. It may be something really local. We might not even see it if it happens."
High radiation outside Japan exclusion zone: IAEA
https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/us-japan-nuclear-iaea-idUSTRE72T5JB20110330