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Old 12-04-2013, 03:36 PM  
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Originally Posted by dyna mo View Post
i'm going by strictly what i've read, so i'm just the messenger here but from what i understand-

tepko claims it will take a year. that's a best-case no problemo scenario.

each rod had to be removed delicately and cannot touch another rod.

there are 1000s of rods, ~1800 tons of fuel rods.


moreover, the rod containers were all damaged, rods cracked, etc. if 1 single rod touches another rod, or even wors- shatters, it could cause a chain-reaction nuclear explosion of all the other rods and the millions of tons of radioactive water they are storing there.
what i have heard, but this reactor has both uranium and plutonium

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