Fukushima Daiichi's stability is wholly dependent on water constantly being directed into the reactor basements to prevent the fuel inside from heating up.
The rods then have to be replaced, even though the fuel inside is still radioactive, and will remain so for hundreds of thousands of years.
Its columns are shifting, while the huge 'elephant's foot' of melted radioactive fuel inside is cracking, peeling and producing tonnes of toxic dust.
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The country also needs to spend an estimated $750 million to reconstruct and stabilize the hastily built concrete and steel structure that encases the shattered No. 4 reactor hall and the nearly 200 tons of radioactive fuel inside; the structure is riddled with leaks and threatening to crack open.
During that time -- if not longer because of the uncertainties about long-term storage -- the plant would contribute no electricity, but might still be just as much of a terrorist target because of the fuel inside, so little would actually be gained, he said.
A particular inherent safety advantage of HTR designs is that the graphite can withstand very high temperatures, that the fuel inside will stay inside the graphite pebble and cannot escape to the surroundings even in the event of loss of cooling.
The outer plastic shell then explodes, creating an implosion of the fuel inside, which raises the density high enough to trigger fusion.
In MTF, a superheated plasma is created and confined magnetically, but pistons surrounding it compress the fuel inside, creating a burst of nuclear fusion in the interior.
"Let's say that you have Bob's Debris Removal service and you go up there and your mission is to grapple with this rocket body, grab a hold of it and deal with it somehow, and in the process of doing so it explodes because it's got leftover fuel inside," he says.
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