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What will you do with all the radioactive piping and water that you produce?
by joe__f 3y ago
What will you do with all the radioactive piping and water that you produce?
- timthelion 3y agoThe water isn't in direct contact with the radioactive material and does not become radioactive itself? Its not like the water normally expelled from nuclear powerplants is radioactive.
- aeonik 3y agoWhat is in direct contact with the water? I assume the water is heated conductively by another material that absorbs the radiation and is heated. What material is used to for this shielding and heating?
- timthelion 3y agoCeramic coated lead?
- ben_w 3y agoThe lead turns into bismuth, the bismuth into polonium. And if you don't run it above the annealing temperature, you have to care about the neutrons creating internal stresses from directly dislocating the atoms.
- joe__f 3y agoWhat's the attenuation rate of neutrons by the shielding? I find it hard to believe it would be 100% with none passing into the piping or water