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 inserted into the water pool, so fual and water dont touch each other, and the vapor cycle is a closed system
expatriado@lemmy.world 8 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 inserted into the water pool, so fual and water dont touch each other, and the vapor cycle is a closed system
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
It also only would contaminate the things in water and not the water itself.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Well it can activate water itself and make F-18, H-3, and N-17 from just H20