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...separated secondary loop. Presumably only low-level radioactivity will be passed on, and so, in a sense, the heat passing out of the system will not be accompanied by any dangerous cargo. Meanwhile, the water from the core, having yielded its heat?and thereby become denser and heavier???will flow down and out of the generator into the primary loop's "cold leg." That will carry the water back into the hot reactor, where the water will be re heated, expanded and able to carry off still more heat in a steady repeat of the cycle...
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