Sentences with phrase «molten uranium fuel»
This happened in 1986 when a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl caught fire and exploded, showering surrounding territory with radioactive particles and threatening to let molten uranium fuel seep deep into the ground.
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All of the actinides (uranium, plutonium) can be used for fuel with molten salt reactors or some other high burn reactors.
The used fuel pellets from current reactors (after processing to convert the uranium oxide to uranium tetrafluoride) could just be dumped in the molten salt.