This has upset me for years. I work in powerplants. To clean the coal tubes in powerplants, they use Saccharine, they do not let us in the same room they store the saccharine in, without an oxegen supplying resperator. But it is fine to drink in your coffee. I talked to a health dept. employee friend of mine, and they checked and said it was fine, because the sacchrine for your coffee is only a 4% strength. Glad i dont drink it.
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Stainless steel containment vessel? Nah dog, if they did, then that engineer should be tortured and killed. No nuclear trained engineer would do that. It's a similar to stainless steel material that can last an obscenely long time. Without spilling classified information, I can tell you it is NOT stainless steel, it shares similar metals, but those other metals added make a BIG difference.
Enough of a difference to stop this 'thinning' or 'rearranging' effect?
Not so, look at Diablo Canyon. Radiation causes what is called in Material Science as 'Aging'. Long-term aging of organic materials in reactor containment buildings has become a major issue within the nuclear community. Radiation causes premature aging where stainless steel and other metals become brittle and crack.
then their engineers suck.