Supplementary videos

Fuel rod assembly
NRC Questions Westinghouse Reactor Design (AP1000)
Why spent fuel rods should matter to you: CNN Situation Room
Nuke group Areva trims ambitions post-Fukushima

Extra credit readings

• Radiation Protection: Radon EPA /13/13
• Radioactive Smoke: A Dangerous Isotope Lurks in Cigarettes Scientific American 1/5/11
• Fission Fragments HyperPhysics
• Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain’s Scrapped, So What Now? Wall Street Journal 2/26/09
• Greater Danger Lies in Spent Fuel Than in Reactors New York Times 3/17/11
• Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive Union of Concerned Scientists 4/05/11

Additional material

• Nuclear Power Reactors (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

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