2011-03-16, 07:22 PM
Erich Wrote:Water is evaporating in all of them, because that is completely normal. The steam is usually pumped into a turbine elsewhere.
The water evaporating is the water used to store the used, and highely radio active, fuel rods that are no longer useful for electricity production.
And once this water is gone, we risk the fuel rods quickly overheating, corroding and then finally releasing massive levels of radiation.