Comment 61134

By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted March 17, 2011 at 22:28:00 in reply to Comment 60985

The big difference between Candu reactors and others is that the Candus use un-enriched uranium while all the others use enriched uranium. The Candus need to use heavy water to allow enough neutrons to get through to maintain the critical mass. Plain water would absorb to many neutrons and stop the fission process.

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