Which risk increases when cooling spent nuclear fuel rods?

💡 Explanation

Increased alpha decay rates occur because the Arrhenius equation shows that lower temperatures slow annealling; therefore accumulated defects concentrate and accelerate decay—rather than causing structural changes, which rely on temperature gradients for phase transitions.

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