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Date Posted: 17:30:45 10/25/13 Fri
Author: Stiller�
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Subject: Re: One reactor uses MOX & was built by GE
In reply to: Destroyed in D.C. 's message, "One reactor uses MOX & was built by GE" on 15:56:22 10/25/13 Fri

Ok, that is not a MOX reactor, it's ~6% MOX fuel. A few rods were,out of hundreds. I was incorrect in thinking that no MOX was used but was sure it wasn't a MOX fuel reactor. From the NEI:

Reactor 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant used mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel that represented less than 6 percent of the total fuel in the core. This fuel had only been in the reactor for less than five months. Due to these factors, and the relatively small differences between the radionuclide content of MOX and low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel, the use of MOX fuel did not have a significant impact on the offsite releases of radioactivity.

http://safetyfirst.nei.org/ask-an-expert/what-fuel-mix-was-in-use-at-fukushima-and-was-that-a-factor-in-the-accident-does-the-united-states-use-mox-fuel/

That's just the one glaring error though. Another glaring error was that they were trying to pass a map of "wave height" as a "radioactive spread map". It uses a measurement unit of �cm� in the legend which is not used in radiation spread maps.

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