The New York Times has another interactive graphic and related article entitled
"Deconstructing a Controversial Design".
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Originally Posted by New York Times
A leading question about the Fukushima Daiichi plant: Why was the spent fuel pool placed on a high platform, making it difficult to replace cooling water in an emergency? It started with the selection of reactor type.
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The graphics and article attempts to explain the series of design decisions that went
into the Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor that lead to the spent fuel rod pools being positioned at the top.
Step by step interactive graphic -
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/bu...1&ref=business
Related article -
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/we...ew/20wald.html
Track the reactor status here -
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...rs-status.html