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To: Richnorth who wrote (13894)	6/29/1998 12:23:00 AM
From: Richard L. Williams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116796

Hmmm...we're way off topic here, but this sounds like possible after-the-fact excuse making by the former Soviets. The story I have heard all these years went like this: The director of Chernobyl decided to run an emergency drill on what to do when the water cooling failed. He ordered the cooling system turned off, without warning the on-duty staff. The staff reacted slowly, and when they did, the backup water cooling system did not operate. When in a panic, the primary cooling system was turned back on, the core had already overheated and started destroying its container. So, is the updated story that the quake damaged the backup cooling system, thus causing the meltdown? If so, I suppose I could find it plausible. Don't earthquakes sometimes reveal veins of gold in the newly opened earth? One way to get this back on topic.