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Monday, January 30, 2012

How sea water could corrode nuclear fuel

How sea water could corrode nuclear fuel

Davis CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2012
Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 - and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California, Davis. But Navrotsky and others have since discovered a new way in which seawater can corrode nuclear fuel, forming uranium compounds that cou

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