In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:43:36 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Water reacts with hot Zr to produce powdered ZrO2 and with uranium to >produce powdered U3O8, which generates a lot of heat, resulting in the >observed fires. The UO2 is only slightly reactive with water and is not the >problem.
...Is there actually any metallic Uranium in the reactors? I thought it would all be in the form of an oxide already? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
