Here’s how Arnold “Arnie” Gundersen, a nuclear engineer with more than
44 years of experience in the nuclear industry, who became a
whistleblower and is now chief engineer at Fairewinds Associates,
explains embrittlement: “When exposed to radiation, metal becomes
embrittled and eventually can crack like glass. The longer the radiation
exposure, the worse the embrittlement becomes.”
“A nuclear reactor is just like a pressure cooker and is a pot designed
to hold the radioactive contents of the atomic chain reaction in the
nuclear core,” continues Gundersen, whose experience includes being a
licensed Critical Facility Reactor Operator. “And metals in reactors are
exposed to radiation every day a plant operates”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/01/embrittlement-in-nuclear-power-plants/
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