Inside Nuclear Reactors

Inside a Nuclear Reactor
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Don't Fall In
A technician at Germany's Kruemmel plant measures the temperature of a cooling pool filled with spent nuclear rods, July 2009. It is pools very much like this that have gone dry at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, causing so much danger — and so many headaches.

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