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However, injection capability would ultim<strong>at</strong>ely be lost during an ex<br />

tended <strong>St<strong>at</strong>ion</strong> Blackout, either through exhaustion of the installed b<strong>at</strong><br />

tery capacity or earlier, through secondary failures of vital equipment.<br />

Once injection capability is lost, the <strong>St<strong>at</strong>ion</strong> Blackout would become a<br />

Severe Accident with inevitable core uncovery. The remainder of this re<br />

port proceeds from an assumption th<strong>at</strong> the Blackout does develop into a<br />

Severe Accident, involving core meltdown and subsequent fission product<br />

release to the <strong>at</strong>mosphere.

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