Now I know why Gregory Jaczko is hyping up steam.
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Another nightmare scenario - contained in a hypothetical projection in a 2000 study by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - also seemed unlikely to come to pass. The study predicted that there could be up to 26,000 cancer deaths over a radius of 500 miles (807 kilometers) in the event of a fire in the zirconium cladding of fuel rods in a spent fuel pool.
There are concerns about the state of the fuel rods in one of the Fukushima plant's pools after a U.S. official said all the water had drained out. But the study's findings were assumed a situation much worse than in Japan, involving more fuel, a bigger reactor and no prior evacuation.
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