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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Reactor design in Japan has long been questioned; Wall St Falls on nuclear power crisis

Design weaknesses in General Electric designed Mark 1 nuclear reactor in Fukushima Daiichi, Japan make it prone to coolant failure and is at severe risk in the Japanese crisis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16contain.html

US stocks tumbling today in fear of nuclear catastrophe
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/markets-stocks-idUSN1524249620110315

sam york

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