So far their prototype uses a nickel-63 source, but they hope to instead take carbon-14 from the huge number of stockpiled graphite blocks from old reactors, and use it to create radioactive ...

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But this led to the actual deactivation of the plant’s safety systems which created a massive steam explosion and an open-air ...