The question may have been born from the James Bond movies when he takes the fuel rods in and out of the submarine reactor core. This topic is not controversial because it's either safe to touch or not safe to touch. The myth exists because people are curious and want to know if nuclear fuel rods are safe to touch.
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Nuclear fission is related to this because nuclear fuel rods are the waste products of nuclear fission, which is the splitting of atoms to create energy. They also are looking for a way to recycle used fuel rods. A way they are thinking of is to burry them underground because they are lethal for 250,000 years. The scientific compound uranium is U-235 or U-238. There are more uranium compounds but those are the ones that we use most in nuclear fission.
Nuclear fuel rods are not safe to touch because they stay radioactive for 250,000 years according to eHow | How To Do Just About Everything! | How To Videos & Articles. Apparatuses to hold nuclear fuel rods since they are radioactive and not safe to touch and PatentStorm: U.S. Patents has the patent and information about the patent.
4 comments:
I think it's really interesting how a nuclear rod can stay active for 250,000 years. Before you busted the myth I thought it also would be unsafe to touch them. They don't sound safe.
If they burry them underground couldn't the fuel rods potentialy leak into the ocean or other water? I guess it would all depend on how deep they would be buring them.
It seems obvious that these would be unsafe things to touch, simply by knowing what they are. It's interesting that they can stay radioactive for that long though.
I didn't know that fuel rods lasted 250,000 years, that's amazing. I would have to think though, that it's not safe to store them under ground because if they were to somehow leak, everything around it would be contaminated.
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