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Environment & Energy

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3. They built the plant above an underground river. Some melted cores are now likely underground.

Thu Jan 2, 2020, 03:05 AM

Jan 2020

They've got their "ice dam" to divert the underground flow around the plant, but I don't believe it does much otherwise.

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