Japan’s nuclear meltdowns provide valuable lessons for the design of future nuclear powerplants.
Cambridge, Massachusetts—(ENEWSPF)—August 23, 2011. Among the lessons to be learned from the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daichii nuclear powerplant, according to a new report from MIT, are that emergency generators should be better protected from flooding and other extreme natural events, and that increasing the spacing between reactors at the same site would help prevent an incident at one reactor from damaging…
