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Re:Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion by lispm on Sunday May 08, 2011 @03:38AM (#2525449)
Several US reactors share a lot of the design of the Japanese and are built and designed by GE. That Lone would make me nervous.

The accident in Japan provided knew knowledge: it showed multiple scenarios which were thought to be extremely unlikely or which were not thought about at all.

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Re:Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion by pyre on Sunday May 08, 2011 @04:56AM (#2525523)
So Germany was inspecting that their nuclear power plants could stand up to a 9.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami?
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