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Explosion as in a nuclear one? Really isn't possible. The fissile material isn't pure enough. I believe graphite rods are used as the safety to capture the neu
by tedk-42 8y ago
Explosion as in a nuclear one? Really isn't possible. The fissile material isn't pure enough.
I believe graphite rods are used as the safety to capture the neutrons in a nuclear fission reactor and effectively kill off the reaction.
Explosion as in Chernobyl level? That was basically water pressure.
- pfdietz 8y agoChernobyl had two explosions, a few seconds apart. The second, larger one was after most of the water had left the core. The reactor had a positive void coefficient, so losing water increased reactivity. Of course these were prompt supercritical reactions in a moderated system, so they are not explosions in the sense of bombs, which are fast systems with neutron doubling times measured in fractions of a microsecond.