Meltdown-or-Not Future for Nuclear Seen in Diminutive Reactors
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April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Nuclear engineer Jose Reyes joltedawake at 4:45 a.m. on March 11 when his son called to warn himthat a massive earthquake had rocked Japan and unleashed atsunami. Giant waves were heading for the Oregon coast, about anhour from Reyes’s Corvallis office.
As news poured in during the next 12 hours that the coolingsystem at a Tokyo Electric Power Co. nuclear plant had beendamaged, Reyes’s anxiety grew. People were using the words“potential meltdown” with alarming frequency.