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Default Japan Nuclear Problem

On Mar 19, 5:19*pm, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

PWR reactors are capabe of cooling the cores by convection alone in a
shutdown situation.


Firstly they're not. Only some recent designs, very few of which have
yet been built (at commercial sizes)

Secondly the reactors at Fukushima are BWRs, not PWRs.