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What is a sentence for uninhabitable?

"There is no life on that uninhabited moon."On this block, there are no uninhabited houses.


Who built the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors?

The reactors af Fukushima Daiichi were built by different companies, but they were all designed by GE.


When was Fukushima nuclear plant built?

Construction for the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant started the 25th of July, 1967. The plant was built by Kajima Construction Corporation, Ltd. This is a Japanese construction company. Founded in 1840. Fukushima I was fully operational in the year 1971.


How was the fukushima reactor built?

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was constructed using standard practices for nuclear reactor design prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s. It featured boiling water reactors (BWRs) designed by General Electric, with multiple safety systems, including emergency core cooling and containment structures. Construction began in the early 1970s, and the first reactor was commissioned in 1971. The plant was designed to withstand seismic activity, but it ultimately faced catastrophic failures during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.


Are generation 3 nuclear plants safe?

Most nuclear power plants are quite safe. The only ones that were inherently unsafe ware the Soviet-made power stations similar to Chernobyl, which did not include a reactor containment building. The nuclear powerplant at Fukushima Daichi in Japan was crippled not by a failure of the nuclear reactor, but by the tsunami following the magnitude 9+ earthquake. The plant survived the earthquake, and the plant operators shut down the reactor, but a nuclear reactor generates a LOT of heat, and takes a while to cool off. When the reactor isn't providing power to run the coolant pumps, external power must be supplied to run the pumps to cool the reactor. Fukushima Daichi had backup diesel generators for this purpose, and power from the electrical grid as a backup - but the tsunami knocked out the generators and knocked down the power grid all along the coastline. The new reactor designs are not susceptible to failure when the coolant pumps go offline.