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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by necheffa on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:49PM (#30550485)
The one snag is that even with the reactor shut down (just drop all the control rods in) you still have to deal with the decay heat.

Which, in the case of a controlled manual shut down shouldn't be a problem.

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Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'... by PeterisP on Friday March 04, 2022 @02:09AM (#30551611)
It's not a problem if you can continue to run the cooling system for quite some time. If you bomb the plant or its connections to the outside, that might be a problem - just as in Fukushima, where a key cause of the disaster was that the cooling system could not be properly powered when required.
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