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Strange why they didn't put it on a recovery ship. Perhaps the reactor needs a large supply of cooling water that could not be made available when out of the wa
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 5y ago
Strange why they didn't put it on a recovery ship. Perhaps the reactor needs a large supply of cooling water that could not be made available when out of the water.
- retrac 5y agoYes. Due to the decay heat of fission byproducts, a nuclear reactor remains very hot immediately after being shut down. Active cooling is usually necessary for quite some time (weeks or even months). In normal operations, when spent fuel is removed from a reactor, it is stored in pools for many years to cool down (both thermally and radioactively).