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Old 04-19-2011, 08:02 AM   #907
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube View Post
Bionerd is one of my favorite science posters on Youtube.

Here are some theories from her about Fukushima Daiichi. The 2nd half is slightly more interesting. All the water they are dumping on the reactor may not be cooling it down, but actually creating more fissionable material.

Having just attended a conference on High Level Radioactive Waste Management and listening to panels of speakers of people who are plugged into the situation as much as any "outsider" can be plugged in (Japanese culture is very private and that extends to situations like this), I can say with quite a bit of certainty that more fissionable material is not being created.
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