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leila
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Ok, I am giving a talk on nuclear power at the weekend, and a few questions have popped up that I am unsure about.
1. Why do we get nuclear waste exactly?
2. Why would we want to use a pebble shape for future fission reactors?
3. What issues are there with decommissioning of plants?
4. Why does fusion and fission only occur in particular elements?
5. Why does an extra neutron increase the electrostatic replusion when we go from U235->U236?
6. In the new reactors that are planned, they stay single phase (ie He gas throughout or supercritical water throughout where does the energy come from if they aren't changing phase?
Any ideas on any of these would be greatly appreciated
1. Why do we get nuclear waste exactly?
2. Why would we want to use a pebble shape for future fission reactors?
3. What issues are there with decommissioning of plants?
4. Why does fusion and fission only occur in particular elements?
5. Why does an extra neutron increase the electrostatic replusion when we go from U235->U236?
6. In the new reactors that are planned, they stay single phase (ie He gas throughout or supercritical water throughout where does the energy come from if they aren't changing phase?
Any ideas on any of these would be greatly appreciated