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The Trump administration is racing to expand nuclear power, and the country’s chief safety regulator is being pushed to keep ...
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Imagine this: Little black pellets made of uranium dioxide are stacked on top of each other in a silver, cylindrical rod. A rogue neutron hits a U-235 nucleus inside a pellet, causing the nucleus to ...