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Letter: What caused Fukushima reactor failures

Published 23 August 2017

From Bryan Norris, Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, UK

You say that a tsunami damaged emergency generators that would have provided power to keep the nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Japan cool (29 July, p 4). But the earthquake that caused the tsunami also caused the cooling systems to fail. Japan hasn't fully reactivated its reactors because it is an earthquake-prone country.

Issue no. 3140 published 26 August 2017

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