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After reading news of the Japan nuclear power plant, I have some questions:
(1) If the fuel rod heats up on their own to the point of melting, how were they created to begin with, and how were they transported, or stored?
(2) What is the source of the fuel rods? If the radioactive materials were found in mines, then there should be radioactive mines that is dangerous to live near. But I have never heard of such places.
(3) Why would the water become radioactive after coming in touch with the fuel rod? Don't the radioactive elements just decay into lead? So the water should just be polluted with lead, right?
(4) Why do spent fuel rods have to be sealed in containers and buried in ground. Why not just dump them back in the mines where they were found?
(5) nuclear weapons also contain material similar to fuel rods, how come they don't heat up or need water cooling?
(1) If the fuel rod heats up on their own to the point of melting, how were they created to begin with, and how were they transported, or stored?
(2) What is the source of the fuel rods? If the radioactive materials were found in mines, then there should be radioactive mines that is dangerous to live near. But I have never heard of such places.
(3) Why would the water become radioactive after coming in touch with the fuel rod? Don't the radioactive elements just decay into lead? So the water should just be polluted with lead, right?
(4) Why do spent fuel rods have to be sealed in containers and buried in ground. Why not just dump them back in the mines where they were found?
(5) nuclear weapons also contain material similar to fuel rods, how come they don't heat up or need water cooling?