H LV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, but if there was so much more heat being produced in the reactor > why is T1 dropping so quickly while T4 is gradually rising? > Well, there was that last burst of internal heat, ~24 minutes long, shown by T1 and T2. I suppose that threw the system out of equilibrium. The surface has to finish warming up from the hot internal temperature. But that does not make sense, because T4 jumps up suddenly, at 14:00. It did occur to me that perhaps it is being warmed by some sort of emission. X-rays or something. I do not think it could be one spot that is getting hot. It is stainless steel which conducts heat rapidly. If it were one spot that is briefly heated up by something like a laser, the temperature would jump straight up like this. But then as soon as the laser stopped that spot would cool down as heat is conducted to the rest of the stainless steel outer surface. I don't know what to make of it. - Jed
