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Hi Bob,
[snip]
>With such a reactor, I would hope a scale-up in size with several prototype
>reactors is in the card to demonstrate validation of the design concept.
That would certainly be the prudent thing to
wrote:
Some points.
>
> 1) The fuel is dissolved in the water, so initially there is no fuel in the
> reactor until water is added, then criticality is achieved at startup by
> pulling
> control rods somewhat once the water (and fuel) has been added.
> At this point, the negative temperature
power with
good reactivity control IMHO.
Bob Cook
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In reply to bobcook39...@hotmail.com's message of Wed, 1 May 2019 02:47:34
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Hi Bob,
Some points.
1) The fuel is dissolved in the water, so initially there is no fuel in the
reactor until water is added, then criticality is achieved at startup by pulling
control rods somewhat once the
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Hi Bob,
[snip]
>As suggested, steam would reduce the flux of th
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In reply to bobcook39...@hotmail.com's message of Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:57:40
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Hi Bob,
[snip]
>As suggested, steam would reduce the flux of thermalized neutrons in the
>reactor and shut it down. To maintain criticality, reactivity would need to
>be added, probably by the movement of
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In reply to JonesBeene's message of Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:42:54 -0700:
Hi Jones,
[snip]
>Robin,
>
>On first glance, one obvious thermodynamic
In reply to JonesBeene's message of Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:42:54 -0700:
Hi Jones,
[snip]
>Robin,
>
>On first glance, one obvious thermodynamic problem is steam in that every
>fission fragment capable of knocking off a neutron is also able to boil off
>several hundred million molecules of heavy
uesday, April 30, 2019 6:43 AM
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Robin,
On first glance, one obvious thermodynamic problem is steam – in that every
fission fragment capable of knocking off a neutron is also able to boil off
sev
Robin,
On first glance, one obvious thermodynamic problem is steam – in that every
fission fragment capable of knocking off a neutron is also able to boil off
several hundred million molecules of heavy water in the process of
thermalizing.
Consequently maintaining a liquid state with
In reply to mix...@bigpond.com's message of Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:49:17 +1000:
Hi,
[snip]
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueous_homogeneous_reactor
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
local asymmetry = temporary success
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