ocr: thelr bodies with air, food or. water. Some puciear waste will stay radioactive for thousands of years. When removed from the. reactor, 1t is kept asa liquid in stairiess steel tanks, surrounded by thick concrete to absorb the radiation, and cooled by water. But sieei tanks will eventuaily start to lesk. - It is planned to turn the liquid into glass blocks which will be dropped into deep cracks in the ocean Coor, Safety and risks A nuciear reactor carnot explode like a nuclear bomb but an accident st anuclear power-station can have disastrous eliects over. a: wide: area. In 1986, there was a.. ...
