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Light WaterLight water, although appearing to have a fancy name, is literally just ordinary water....except it does contain a small amount of Heavy Water. The point of light water is that it can be used as a moderator --however it can only be used in certain situations, as it absorbs too many neutrons to be used with unenriched uranium (which is why light water is presumably used in Spent Fuel Pools) Light water is mainly used in BWR reactors & PWR reactors Uranium Enrichment is necessary for the usage of Spent Nuclear FuelSpent nuclear fuel is literally just fuel that has been burnt or irradiated at a plant. According to Wikipedia, "a fresh rod of low enriched Uranium pellets will become a highly lethal gamma emitter after 1-2 years of core irradiation, unsafe to approach unless under many feet of water shielding." Properties of Spent Fuel During the operation of a nuclear core, temperature gradients cause fission products to move around the fuel rod. The zirconium moves toward the center where temperature is h Nuclear ReactorIn it's most simplest form, a nuclear reactor uses Uranium and other radioactive materials and the fission from uranium to create heat, and transfer that heat into steam to create power. Nuclear reactors are one of the biggest sources of energy, although not renewable, uranium has a very high energy density resulting in massive power transmissions. There are many different types of nuclear reactors, and this term serves as a broad hub/introduction for each type. After uranium is used in reacto Fukushima ReactorThe purpose of this page is to inform people of what happened at Fukushima and the reactor incident, and to give information about the plant itself. (present tense will be used throughout this) Fukushima Reactor Fukushima Daiichi NPP is plant that hosts 6 BWR reactors, using Light Water. This resulted in Fukushima being capable of delivering a combined power of 4.7 GWe (4700 MWe). Units 1, 2, and 6 were made by GE, 3 & 5 by Tobisha, and 4 by Hitachi. All 6 reactors were designed by GE. Unit 3

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