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And what will happen to the solidified salt spill? Could it be safely cleaned up or would it be too radioactive to approach?



It will be rather intensely radioactive. A person cannot approach it. A cleanup like this would have be done robotically. If the spill is contained in the can then the whole can is designed to be sealed and shipped back to the can recycling center where there are facilities for cleaning up the can. The main point though is that the spill is contained within the building and does not spread to the environment. A worst case accident becomes an economic loss of the reactor rather than a mass evacuation.




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