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Guess they weren't monitoring the atmosphere above #4 spent fuel pool for hydrogen.

In addition to: not having a vent for the contingency of hydrogen accumulating there, not having a vent from the containment vessel bypassing the building, and not building the reactors completely isolated and redundant. The design faults just keep adding up.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon May 16th, 2011 at 04:32:49 AM EST
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And Japan is not the only place where reactors of this design were built.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon May 16th, 2011 at 09:17:55 AM EST
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