The Worst Case: What If the Water Ran Dry in the Japanese Reactors? - ScienceInsider

The Worst Case: What If the Water Ran Dry in the Japanese Reactors? What if cooling in one or more of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant were lost? Richard Lester, chair of the department of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, emphasizes the "very, very" unlikely possibility of that scenario. But if it were to occur, the inheren

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Worst case: "With towns evacuated at a perimeter of 30 kilometers, the lethality of that release "would depend on the winds,"