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		krschultz on March 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl There are batteries, they ran the pumps for almost 8 hours. That was one of the backups.

adsr on March 14, 2011 [–]

Yeah you are right, but that wasn't sufficient enough to solve this on the other hand.

mpyne on March 14, 2011 | [–]

Well the batteries are exactly the "electric backup" that was mentioned, although you're also right in that it was never designed to solve the entire casualty, only to last long enough to get other sources of power online.

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