Which risk increases when a nuclear power plant’s emergency cooling injectors fail?

💡 Explanation

Failure causes loss of coolant leading to cladding damage, which increases probability of rapid fuel disintegration. This triggers positive feedback via neutron production from uncontrolled rapid 'fission' therefore, increasing the risk of a supercriticality event, rather than other mechanical failures, because there is runaway neutronic multiplication.

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