No one died as a result of Japan's latest nuclear incident and environmental damage seem have been mostly avoided. But is this testimony to successful plant design or a warning of impending disaster?
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Cyranoski, D. Quake shuts world's largest nuclear plant. Nature 448, 392–393 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448392a
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