Scratch facility fire at Reactor 4
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/wo...uclear.html?hp
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That fourth reactor had been turned off and was under refurbishment for months before the earthquake and tsunami hit the plant on Friday. But the plant contains spent fuel rods that were removed from the reactor, and experts guessed that the pool containing those rods had run dry, allowing the rods to overheat and catch fire. That is almost as dangerous as the fuel in working reactors melting down, because the spent fuel can also spew radioactivity into the atmosphere.
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Pressure in 2 Reactor basically at nil? Game over.