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Why can’t decay heat be harnessed to safely shutdown a nuclear reactor?
Why can’t decay heat be harnessed and used as an energy source to safely power down/cool a nuclear reactor? I have been wondering about this since the reactor incidents in Japan as it appears a tremendous amount off energy must still be dissapated after the shutdown of a nuclear reactor in...- cwatkin
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- Decay Heat Nuclear Nuclear reactor Reactor
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