Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on
by InclinedPlane on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @08:02PM
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Yup. Means you can use lower enriched uranium since the reactor is primarily graphite moderated and merely water cooled (one of the most "efficient" designs possible), but it's unstable by nature and potentially very dangerous, as we've seen.
Such designs are illegal in the US, one of the reasons all but the latest version of the CANDU reactor can't be used here.