MacroVoices #355 Mark Nelson: Understanding All Things Nuclear
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Heavy Water Reactors - What Are the Benefits?
Heavy water is less likely to absorb stray neutrons, meaning it reflects those neutrons back into the reaction. This means you can run your reactor on lower radioactivity initial fuel. You can run heavy water reactors on natural uranium with none of the enrichment from the spinners that we were talking about earlier in the episode.
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