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There are two things to operating a nuclear power station (especially driving a nuclear reactor) that could be considered to be unique to the nuclear industry: the compact source of energy, and the heat and the radioactivity from the fission products.
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Tucker, C. (2019). What Makes Nuclear Special?. In: How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33876-3_5
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