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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Nature and malice: Confronting multiple hazards to nuclear power infrastructure

Nature and malice: Confronting multiple hazards to nuclear power infrastructure

Over the past six months, two geological events in Japan and the United States had similar characteristics but very different outcomes. At Fukushima, 40-plus-year-old reactors shut down as designed on March 11 following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, but the combination of ruptured offsite power supply lines and generators flooded by the ensuing tsunami led to a massive meltdown.

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