• expatriado@lemmy.world
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    if it looks that hot, fission is pretty active and a lot of particles are coming your way. better put it under water and attach a turbine to the vessel, and a generator to the shaft

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      Ahhh water. Blocks alpha particles. Disables magnets. Is there anything this wondrous liquid can’t do?

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        my comment is oversimplified and partly joke, but nuclear power plants use mostly uranium fuel pellets, which are inserted in metal fuel rods and these into another metal container called fuel assemblies, before the are lowered into the water pool, so fuel and water don’t touch each other, and the vapor cycle is a closed system

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          It also only would contaminate the things in water and not the water itself if i understand correctly