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Chapter 15, Problem 85QP
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The nuclear waste formed in a nuclear fission reactor is to be described.
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Some of the heavy radioactive nuclides are very much unstable. They undergo decay in two ways, one is alpha decay and another is splitting of the nucleus and a large amount of energy is released. Again some of the heavy nuclides do not undergo fission spontaneously but will undergo if irradiated or bombarded with neutron, When the heavy radioactive nuclides are broken into two or more nucleus by the bombardment with some number of neutrons is called fission reaction. The nuclear waste is the material that nuclear fuel becomes after its use in a fission reactor.
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