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Essay heading: Nuclear Power
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U-235 is one of the only atoms that can do induced fission however. When a stray neutron is fired at a U-235 pellet it splits the atom and sends off neutrons, thus splitting more atoms causing a chain reaction that gets very hot very quickly.
The reaction is controlled by objects called control rods...
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These control rods absorb free neutrons floating around thus stopping a reaction. After use the control rods became hot and very radioactive. This is where one of the biggest issues with nuclear power comes from, “Where do we store the waste”?
Usually we let the waste cool down for a bit and we bury it deep in the earth in containers surrounded by steel concrete and salt...
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