Liquid metal is a way of cooling the metal very quickly indeed (early methods used cooling of millions of degrees per second) and so getting your metal into a solid state before the crystals could form.

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And have you tested in any kind of way if there was a possibility of an earthquake how would these cooling systems be able to handle shutting the nuclear reactors down?

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So, by way of the ocean currents, the impact would initiate a long-term cooling.

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Dr Cooper and Julien Reboud, also from the University of Glasgow, have now developed a way to carry out the entire PCR process mixing, heating and cooling, as well as analysis using a single piezoelectric source, without the need for separate heating elements or detection equipment.

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