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Why should Jaitapur be made a guinea pig for untested reactor? [1]

If in the nuclear reactors in Japan, a sizeable core-melt occurs, it could give rise to explosive metal-water reactions, which could disintegrate the reactor core, disperse radioactive substances, and breach the ultimate containment.

When that happens, dangerous species of radioactive fission products in the gaseous and micro-dust and droplet form could spread over large areas, depending on win

Publication Date: 
17/03/2011
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai) [2]
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Radioactive Waste [3], Nuclear Power [4], Maharashtra [5], Ratnagiri (D) [6], Nuclear Power Corporation Of India (NPCIL) [7]
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