Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030 [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)intaglio states:
It is necessary for nuclear fuels to sustain a chain reaction
intaglio,
I explained that!!! You want to destroy actinides like Americium by fission.
You don't use the Amercium as fuel.
You use U-235 or Pu-239 as the fuel; and U-235 and Pu-239 WILL SUSTAIN the chain reaction.
But you also put in the Americium which will be fissioned into short-lived fission products.
Can't you understand my analogy with the incinerator?
You have some wet wood that can't sustain combustion that you want to destroy.
You put it in a gas incinerator. The wet wood doesn't have to keep the fire going; the gas sustains the fire.
The wet wood will eventually be consumed by the gas-fueled fire.
This is so SIMPLE.
I can explain it to you. But I can't understand it for you
PamW