>>keep it in perpective. At Chernobyl the actual reactor was running at full power during a poorly planned test and exploded. The graphite in the reactor then caught fire . Nothing approaching that is happening in Japan.
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>Incorrect, the reactor load should have been 75% for the test, it was done at 20% and due to a design flaw in the dampening rod tips, they had become highly radioactive, this caused the reactor to pulse, with insufficient coolant flow causing the failure.
fair enough.But I still think there is no comparison between the two incidents
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