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> Plus, what harbor would allow commercial nuclear reactors, given the costs of catastrophic failure

These ports already handle tens of thousands of tons of explosives - the blast in Beirut wa over 1 Kt of TNR equivalent, and all that ammonium nitrate arrived on a single ship. It was basically a small nuclear detonation.



How many billions did dredging all the Caesium out of the harbour and evacuating the entire area for a few months to avoid the Iodine plume from the nitrate explosion cost?




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