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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
We're even helping bring in coolant to basically dump on the entire building. Let's hope our caution is greater than the actual threat for once.
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
it was just mentioned on cnn tele that the u.s. is rushing nuclear coolant to the scene.
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CNN must have been listening to Hillary Clinton too much. She is the one that said we were rushing coolant to them. A nuclear reactor is cooled with water.
From the Washington Post:
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In a statement that confused nuclear experts, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday morning that U.S. Air Force planes in Japan had delivered "coolant" to a nuclear power plant affected by the quake. Nuclear reactors do not use special coolants, only large amounts of pumped water.
"They have very high engineering standards, but one of their plants came under a lot of stress with the earthquake and didn't have enough coolant," she said, "and so Air Force planes were able to deliver that." It remained unclear what the Air Force had delivered.
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