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  1. A swapping of positions would be enough to make those thoughts change, I'm pretty sure.

     

    I have a friend who has some rental apartments here in Japan. As Black Mountain just said, he doesn't make a huge amount on the places - Mr Wiggles mentioned it is a renters market, rental prices are kept low - and if he had to fix up things over and above what is vaguely termed 'wear and tear', it probably wouldn't be worth doing. He is in fact on the verge of getting out of it.

  2. As long-time anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman explained, the

     

     

    Spent fuel rods must be kept cool at all times. If exposed to air, their zirconium alloy cladding will ignite, the rods will burn and huge quantities of radiation will be emitted. Should the rods touch each other, or should they crumble into a big enough pile, an explosion is possible.

     

    "In the worst-case scenario," RT adds,

     

    the pool could come crashing to the ground, dumping the rods together into a pile that could fission and cause an explosion many times worse than in March 2011.

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