Quake Test of Reactor Halted by W. Germans
MUNICH, West Germany — West German scientists testing the effects of an earthquake on a nuclear reactor were ordered to stop work Monday because of fears that they could cause a real nuclear accident, industry officials said.
The experiment, using a huge American-built machine known as a “shaker,†had been under way for a week inside the protective dome of an abandoned nuclear reactor at Kahl on the river Main.
A temporary halt was called because of the danger of damage to a second mothballed reactor 150 yards away that still contains radioactive fuel rods, the officials said.
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