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They might look like communication towers or an oil dike. there was some significance to you. explain to us. >> yeah. when the plants were designed after an accident you were supposed to exhaust all the radiation up those towers. and you get an elevated release which allows for more dispersion of the radioactive material. when the fans went out and no radioeleva radioelevate -- radio activity got pumped up. if stead of going up those tax the radioactivity is lying close to the ground. i would expect you see more contamination in the local communities and less of it getting lofted out to sea. >...
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