Reply #5: Right = it's not the MOX [View All]

There are a total of three Reactors using it in Japan, only one is in danger.
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Plutonium is a fission fuel material for these reactors. But the fission
chain reaction stopped last Friday. When the plant sensed the quake, it
shutdown. The control rods were dropped, and the fission chain reaction stopped.

So why do we have a heating / cooling problem? It's because of the fission products,
the nuclear "ash".

It's the nuclear "ash" that is giving us this heat now, not the fuel.

Plutonium has nothing whatsoever to do with the heat that needs to be removed now.

Burning plutonium gives you essentially the same nuclear "ash" as burning uranium.

There's zero reason for a reactor fueled with MOX to be any different.

Besides, as I said in another post, the partially burned fuel the reactor is running
on which started out as only uranium, looks like MOX after a few months in the reactor.

Reactors run on something that looks like MOX all the time.

PamW