• expatriado@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    my comment is oversimplified and partly joke, but nuclear power plants use mostly uranium fuel pellets, which are inserted in metal fuel rods and these into another metal container called fuel assemblies, before the are lowered into the water pool, so fuel and water don’t touch each other, and the vapor cycle is a closed system

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      17 hours ago

      It also only would contaminate the things in water and not the water itself if i understand correctly