Do Thermal Neutrons Irradiate Their Shielding Water?

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kunkmiester wrote:How hard is it to get pure water? Pure enough to make the irradiation negligible, anyway.
Difficult. You are talking about removing .06% of the mass and you can't do it very well chemically. It is very energy intensive.

In Naval Nuke plants we just reacted it as much as possible with O2 and isolated it and we also had a lot of continuously running air monitors.
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Heavy water...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girdler_sulfide_process

Except you want the stripped, deutron-free water...

Probably cheaper to junk the reactor from time to time !!
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