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"No nuclear power plant has ever considered the inability to get on long-term core cooling for more than a week, much less three weeks, " Friedlander said.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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His recently completed Project Inverted, just highlighted by ASUS, puts most of the hardware on the outside: the Sabertooth Z77 motherboard, Core i5 processor, fan cooling, memory, Radeon HD 6870 video card and watercooling pipes all sit in plain sight.
ENGADGET: Project Inverted turns a gaming PC inside-out with hand-made casing
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The world held its breath for weeks as TEPCO struggled to contain the radiation, restore electricity to the site, and repair cooling systems to prevent major core meltdowns.
FORBES: The Future of Atomkraft
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That thinking changed on March 28, 1979, when a small valve stuck open, cooling water escaped and the reactor core of TMI's Unit 2 began to melt.
CNN: Three Mile Island, 20 years later
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Technologies including multi-core processor chips, more efficient power supplies and smart cooling systems are already available.
ECONOMIST: Computers and the environment