Timeline for Why doesn't a nuclear fuel pool become irradiated?
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| Mar 1, 2014 at 20:17 | comment | added | Martin Beckett | @Maelish - except for a small amount converted to Tritium I suppose it would. In practice the volume of water is very large compared to the number of neutrons available and the water is replaced with fresh water regularly | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 18:20 | comment | added | Maelish | So the particles bond to the water and turn into something thats not dangerous? Does that mean all of the water in the pool would become heavy water at some point? | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 17:19 | history | edited | Martin Beckett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2014 at 17:15 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | There was nothing wrong with the answer, it is just more complete with that detail. | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 17:14 | history | edited | Martin Beckett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2014 at 17:10 | comment | added | Martin Beckett | @dmckee - sorry I had remembered that the neutron capture of D2O was almost zero, not that the capture to make D2O. | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 17:02 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Big and important detail here: most (as in, essentially all) of the lose neutrons (which are the biggest single source of activation) are captured by $^1\mathrm{H}$ ending as deuterium which is stable. The capture cross-section for all oxygen isotopes and deuterium are all much lower than for protons. | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 16:51 | history | answered | Martin Beckett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |