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Old April 23rd, 2008, 11:01 PM   #46
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This is what makes AP1000 fundamentally different...I can't melt down. Try as you will, you can't make it melt down. Every previous reactor was not really fundamentally safe, it was just engineered with so many safety systems as to make it safe. Still, every nuclear accident worth mentioning has resulted because people disabled safety systems. In the AP1000, all of the major safety systems are passive, not electronic. You cannot disable them.


Yeah, I am sure that it is foolproof.
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