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wedesoft on March 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactor...

Also Chernobyl uses graphite as a moderator instead of water. I.e. the chain reaction continued even after the water boiled away.

billswift on March 13, 2011 [–]

Also, from what I remember from the coverage at the time and right after, the graphite caught fire and the plume of smoke helped to carry even more fallout into the air and to spread it even farther.

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