Green: U.S. Dropped Nuclear Rule Meant to Avert Hydrogen Explosions

Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 11:30 in Physics & Chemistry

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission decided that "hydrogen recombiners," which eliminate the kind of gas that blew up the outer containments of three reactors in Japan, were not needed at American reactors after all because other technologies would suffice.

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