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Old 03-14-2011, 04:41 PM  
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Ocean water can be used to cool the reactor down. Problem is tht by flooding the reactor with oceanwater will effectively destroy it forever, so they will save that as a last resort and given that the pump system still works to actually pump in seawater.

Since Japan is exporting a lot of nuclear knowledge and services, they are actually world leaders in this field, many think that the japanese government is trying to downplay the seriousness of this as to not destroy the chances of their nuclear industry on the international arena.

A nuclear power plant is not as an atomic bomb, they don't just explode. They are constructed to withheld as much radiation as possible while an atomic bomb is the completely opposite with as much radiation an spread of it as possible. By all mean, this is very serious but also needs to be seen in light of what it actually is, not getting overly hyped by uninformed dummies.
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