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FBaggins

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10. No... a similar event can't happen at Diablo Canyon

Reply to PeaceWave (Reply #3)

Thu May 30, 2024, 04:20 AM

May 2024

Notice that Fukushima reactors 5&6 suffered no meltdown?

Take the four units involved in the disaster and put them at the top of an 85 foot cliff… and all anyone remembers about that day would be the tsunami deaths.

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