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Japan To Use Helicopters on Out-of-Control Reactors

Radiation is spewing out as we speak. Evidently, the explosions have indeed badly damaged the containment structure and suppression chambers surrounding the cores. These water-filled enclosures cool the fuel rods, which are not just uranium as you might think (bad enough), but — infinitely worse — reprocessed plutonium and uranium oxide material called MOX. This could be a million times Chernobyl.

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