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What should Japan do to prevent a complete catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?

Japan is running out of options at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, as engineers try to lower the temperature of spent fuel rods and control the crisis. Even if you don’t have a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, Slate wants your ideas, however simple or complex, on how to avert disaster at the plant. (Though please let us know if you do have a Ph.D. in nuclear physics!) We’ll run the most popular answers by a panel of nuclear experts, so be sure to vote and comment on others’ ideas along with submitting your own. Voting ends March 22.

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Hot Topics: Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Power, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, all

Containing the problem with inflatable dam-like dome
Will create a contained environment to prevent further failure Read More»
Submitted by Victor Lyatkher | March 19, 2011

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Gravity Water
It's raining water! Halleluha Read More»
Submitted by Low Down Lester Brown | March 19, 2011

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Remote controlled vehicles/simple robots
Create simple but sturdy R/C machines based on low tech that can be mass produced Read More»
Submitted by Gunnar Helliesen | March 18, 2011

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articles in the hive

How To Fix the Nuclear Crisis in Japan
A physicist breaks down the best reader ideas for how to fix Fukushima.

By Chris Wilson
March 28, 2011
Help Wanted: Save Japan From Nuclear Disaster

By Chris Wilson
March 18, 2011

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