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The one point I don't get is "the external steel containment vessels". Aren't the pressure vessels steel and the containment vessel concrete? Or does the containment vessel have a steel layer?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Jun 12th, 2011 at 10:10:56 AM EST
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Maybe they mean "steel containment" external to the "zirconium casing" of the fuel rods which we were being told was melting or burning back in March...

Economics is politics by other means
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 12th, 2011 at 10:53:19 AM EST
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