This can take more than a week to cool down, and the rods must be continually bathed in cooling waters to keep them from overheating.

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Hurricanes are fueled by warm water, and cooling the waters surrounding a storm would slow a storm's momentum.

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About 160, 000 people had to be evacuated from the area around the nuclear plant, where meltdowns occurred at three reactors after tsunami waters knocked out cooling systems.

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