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drink

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Explosions could be common in reactors were they not computer-controlled.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Rapidly increasing demands for natural resources, employment, education, and social services make any attempts to protect natural resources and improve living standards very difficult.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

No American or western European reactor can explode. They can, however, under
certain circumstances make hydrogen gas, which can burn explosively.
Reactors of the RBMK type do need to be computer controlled. The RBMK reactors can
explode, as Chernobyl didbut not in a nuclear explosion. The explosion came from
graphite (carbon) used as a moderator in the reactor that caught fire from the release of
Wigner energy.

Answer to Question 2

This is very much the case. We see examples of the difficulty of doing this every
day. I hope that the student will adduce examples from personal experience.



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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