Sandia on Magnox Reactor and Purex

This Sandia report (which I mentioned here) has a couple of decent graphics. The first is a cutaway view of a Magnox reactor. the second is a diagram of the Purex process. (The report explains that North Korea may have been using a simplified version of this process).

Anyway, here’s the Magnox cutaway:

Here’s the Purex diagram:

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