How do they make it safe to turn it off?

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kryptoflovecraft — 6 years ago(July 08, 2019 07:09 PM)

How do they make it safe to turn it off?
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Boris Johnson — 6 years ago(July 08, 2019 07:10 PM)

Hey, were you born near a nuclear power plant?
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kryptoflovecraft — 6 years ago(July 08, 2019 07:13 PM)

Israel is a small country, no bigger than NJ
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XoX — 6 years ago(July 21, 2019 04:26 PM)

It is the compact nature of the fuel rods that cause the fission reaction that generates heat. If they wanted to disable the fission potential, I suppose they could just grind the rods up and put it into a stable solution, a sort of concrete, that would keep the fissile material far enough away to avoid a chain reaction.