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Re:Another Explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Plant by idlewords on Sunday March 13, 2011 @11:31PM (#2321203)
As I understand it, anything that gets vented from the outer structure first goes through an activated charcoal scrubber to remove radioactive contaminants. This may limit the rate at which gas can get vented.

Oxygen and hydrogen form explosive mixtures over a very wide range of relative concentrations, which doesn't help.

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Re:Another Explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Plant by rbanffy on Monday March 14, 2011 @12:00AM (#2321249)
Any amount of hydrogen vented into the outer building could be burned with environmental oxygen, regardless of how much of it available in the exhaust. Can't be that hard.
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Re:Another Explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Plant by rue on Monday March 14, 2011 @01:59PM (#2323600)
Can't be that hard, really? I can't say one way or another but I'd kinda expect the experts to have thought of this at some point if it was a trivial possibility.
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