A thirty foot hairline crack was discovered in an Ohio nuclear plant reactor. Many more cracks were discovered after further inspection. The plant's owner says that the reactor was thoroughly inspected and passed requirements. However the plant has still been shut down so the reactor head could be replaced properly.
This is pretty scary, the last thing our country needs is for a nuclear plant to start leaking toxins into our atmosphere. You would think that these buildings would be inspected on a regular basis and that these cracks would have been taken care of as soon as they appeared. Japan just had a radioactive disaster that is already causing panic and will eventually cause health problems to the citizens there. I think that whoever is in charge of inspecting these things should take this as a prompt to inspect these things more often for the safety of the workers there and the rest of the country.
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