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Every currently operating light-water reactor, if deprived of power and cooling water, can melt down.
Amory Lovins: With Nuclear Power, "No Acts of God Can Be Permitted" Amory Lovins 2011
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Every currently operating light-water reactor, if deprived of power and cooling water, can melt down.
Amory Lovins: With Nuclear Power, "No Acts of God Can Be Permitted" Amory Lovins 2011
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea claimed Wednesday that it is making rapid progress on work to enrich uranium and build a light-water nuclear power plant.
North Korea Uranium Enrichment Work Progressing, Country Claims The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Every currently operating light-water reactor, if deprived of power and cooling water, can melt down.
Amory Lovins: With Nuclear Power, "No Acts of God Can Be Permitted" Amory Lovins 2011
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Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the construction of an experimental light-water reactor and low enriched uranium are "progressing apace."
North Korea Uranium Enrichment Work Progressing, Country Claims The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the construction of an experimental light-water reactor and low enriched uranium are "progressing apace."
North Korea Uranium Enrichment Work Progressing, Country Claims The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, which is backed by the state-owned China National Nuclear Corp., estimated last year that China's total accumulated spent fuel from light-water reactors, the technology used for all but two of China reactors, will be around 2,000 metric tons by 2015.
Beijing Says Its Reactors Are Safe Brian Spegele 2011
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UN sanctions allow Iran to buy equipment for Bushehr, a light-water reactor that does not produce weapons-grade nuclear material.
Failure at Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant raises concerns about safety 2011
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All that can be said with confidence now is that the nuclear power plants of the year 2100 will have about as much resemblance to today's workhorse light-water reactors as a modern automobile has to a 1911 Model T.
Why Fukushima Won't Kill Nuclear Power Richard K. Lester 2011
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea claimed Wednesday that it is making rapid progress on work to enrich uranium and build a light-water nuclear power plant.
North Korea Uranium Enrichment Work Progressing, Country Claims The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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