September 2020

Radioactive Waste 777 - British Railways Deliberately Crashed A Train Into A Container Designed To Hold Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods

    Nuclear power has two very big problems which consist of the disposal of nuclear waste and the possibility of nuclear accidents. Both of these problems are connected by the issue of transportation. Spent nuclear fuel rods need to be laid to rest underground in a remote location for the sake of safety.

Nuclear Reactors 816 - ANEEL Is A New Nuclear Fuel Containing Uranium And Thorium - Part 3 of 3 Parts

Part 3 of 3 Parts (Please read Parts 1 and 2 first)
      The fuel bundles in CANDU/PHWR reactors burning natural uranium weight about thirty-three pounds. After about one hundred and fifty days of operation, an average of eight such bundles would need to be replaced every day for the rest of the reactor’s licensed operating life of sixty years.

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