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A nuclear power plant is working normally. What would you do it the reactor core suddenly got too hot?
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If the reactor core all of a sudden gets too hot then it indicates that the rate of nuclear fission is intensified excessively so in order to reduce the rate of nuclear fission process insert the control rods of boron a little more into the reactor and hence the reactor would start working normally.
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