Small reactors often don’t actually have enough fuel to actually melt their containment. And I’m talking Small Modular Reactors in the low MW range.
These pellets would be basically immune to anything even resembling a meltdown unless you had hundreds of them in one space.
No, the risk when dealing with items this small is orphan source. i.e. the loss of a pellet into the wider world.
Orphan source accidents are terrifying but also of very small scale. Usually one or two people who don’t know what they’ve found and lose body parts to it, or just die.
Plus, I suppose that the small size of the payload will make the potential for widespread radiation poisoning lower in case of an accident.
Small reactors often don’t actually have enough fuel to actually melt their containment. And I’m talking Small Modular Reactors in the low MW range.
These pellets would be basically immune to anything even resembling a meltdown unless you had hundreds of them in one space.
No, the risk when dealing with items this small is orphan source. i.e. the loss of a pellet into the wider world.
Orphan source accidents are terrifying but also of very small scale. Usually one or two people who don’t know what they’ve found and lose body parts to it, or just die.
Orphan sources are almost always from improperly disposed of medical equipment. Including the single worst case I can think of.