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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
My first thought when I saw this was they were trying to cut the power rather than blow it up and that's been confirmed on the radio, so it's better than them trying to cause a meltdown at least, still criminally reckless and grossly irresponsible though and unlike chernobyl the reactors are contained so they should not blow up like in 1986. The Russians took control of the hydro electric dam up the road earlier today to incidentally
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I don't think you've thought this through. If the power's cut the cooling circulation pumps stop working so there is the possibility of a core meltdown. Different to Chernobyl, yes as it is a different reacor design.