Researchers develop advanced model to improve safety of next-generation reactors

ScienceDaily
May 21, 2021, 1:13 pm125 pts
When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have helped maintain the necessary cooling of the core, were destroyed by the subsequent tsunami. Because the reactor…

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