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Best Answer: Water has a higher index of refraction than air. When light reaches a boundary between two media with different indices of refraction, part of the light is refracted, and part is reflected.
Water is for the purposes of both cooling and shielding. The lack of water means the nuclear fuel is unshielded. Its gamma rays are rising into the sky and bouncing off air molecules through a phenomenon called skyshine. (That sounds prettier than it is - scattered radiation of a primary gamma radiation source generated by aerial dispersion.)