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Once it's started up, it's a centrifugal pump all on its own. You don't need a positive pressure pump on the body, the fuel would be sucked out and along the blades like a siphon.

That doesn't make the seal problem much easier, but it at least does mean that if a seal were to fail, it would fail safe without spewing h2o2 everywhere.



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