Japan reactor accident; broken access to rods; recovery fraught with dangers

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Japan Strains to Fix a Reactor Damaged Before Quake, New York Times By HIROKO

TABUCHI, June 17, 2011

Three hundred miles southwest of Fukushima, at a nuclear reactor [60 miles from

Kyoto, a city of 1.5 million people] engineers are engaged in another precarious

struggle. [...]

[A] 3.3-ton device crashed into the reactor's inner vessel, cutting off access

to the plutonium and uranium fuel rods at its core. [...]

[C]ritics warn that the recovery process is fraught with dangers because the

plant uses large quantities of liquid sodium, a highly flammable substance, to

cool the nuclear fuel. [...]

[T]he fast-breeder design of the reactor makes it more prone to Chernobyl-type

runaway reactions in the case of a severe accident, critics say. [...]

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Wow. If this keeps up Japan will be but a distant memory. How incredibly

tragic and stupid on humanity's part to rely on such a dangerous technology

for it's electricity.

Japan reactor accident; broken access to

rods; recovery " fraught with dangers "

> Japan Strains to Fix a Reactor Damaged Before Quake, New York Times By

> HIROKO TABUCHI, June 17, 2011

>

> Three hundred miles southwest of Fukushima, at a nuclear reactor [60 miles

> from Kyoto, a city of 1.5 million people] engineers are engaged in another

> precarious struggle. [...]

>

> [A] 3.3-ton device crashed into the reactor's inner vessel, cutting off

> access to the plutonium and uranium fuel rods at its core. [...]

>

> [C]ritics warn that the recovery process is fraught with dangers because

> the plant uses large quantities of liquid sodium, a highly flammable

> substance, to cool the nuclear fuel. [...]

>

> [T]he fast-breeder design of the reactor makes it more prone to

> Chernobyl-type runaway reactions in the case of a severe accident, critics

> say. [...]

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