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Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof (www.newscientist.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Wikipedia page has a decent graphic. Instead of dropping graphite rods between the fuel rods, the fuel is a pellet permanently encased in a tennis ball sized coating of ceramic silicon carbide. The core is a funnel that pellets are continuously fed through, with an inert gas cooling the funnel and transferring the heat to the water for generating electricity.

I'm calling it a radioactive pachinko machine

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

radioactive paremovedo machine

susie-laugh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rofl this should probably be an exception.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It's an old bug of the filter, practically a feature at this point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It doesn't get substituted on Lemmygrad, weird