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Can molton salt reactors produce electricity safely?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Light Water Thermal Reactor

The light water thermal reactor uses normal water, the kind of water that we can drink. Water plays a crucial role between the bars in slowing down the neutrons. The ideais that you so a bunch of these bars serted together and like the neutrons from one bar then cause the atoms from the next bar to split up. And that's how you get the chain reaction, exactly. But there are problems with these reactors. Most of the energy is wasted. It's not even used. That becomes nuclear waste.

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