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In reply to the discussion: Fuel rod removal: Fukushima’s most dangerous operation yields first successes [View all]FBaggins
(26,764 posts)34. Why would the unused fuel rods be easier than the spent ones?
The nutcase argument was that those unused fuel rods posed the greatest risk of criticality (true in the sense that it's a slightly less infinitesimally small possibility). Unused fuel rods would not be in any less danger from imagined damage from falling debris, explosions, or the earthquakes... so why would they be easier to remove?
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Fuel rod removal: Fukushima’s most dangerous operation yields first successes [View all]
MineralMan
Nov 2013
OP
exactly. furthermore, reactor 4 is the easiest of the reactors to remove the fuel from...
magical thyme
Nov 2013
#25
perfectly normal except manually operated and the easiest of the rods to be removed.
magical thyme
Nov 2013
#37
Sorry, but I'm taking the word of people who actually do the job of fuel removal
magical thyme
Nov 2013
#44
well, for one thing, if they have never been critical, they are only alpha emitters.
Throckmorton
Nov 2013
#60