Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110316:04:04:00
Somewhere between tootsie roll size and cadbury egg-sized pellets. those pellets are stacked in these thin, 12-foot-long tubes. they are metal tubes, basically filled with pellets of uranium. that's what we call fuel rods. and that's essentially the business end of a nuclear reactor. big long fuel rods like that round ed vertically inserted into a steel containment vessel. what's happening inside when the reactor is going is a nuclear reaction, nuclear fission. atoms splitting. but instead of creating a nuclear explosion it is a controlled reaction. instead of blowing up, the nuclear reaction ...
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