On Mar 13, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Dennis wrote:
Can someone here explain why nuclear sites are not required to have
a gravity feed tank filled with borated water ready to flood reactors?
What am I missing here.
Dennis
Some related posts in 2004 thread: "China Syndrome Cure?":
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01162.html
On Oct 22, 2004, at 3:50 AM, Horace Heffner wrote:
If the bottom of the inside of a nuclear reactor containment
building were
a mesh of boron carbide, or possibly even just a bunch of boron
carbide
balls, then a hot glob melting out of the reactor core would flow
down into
narrow channels between what are effectively control rods and
automatically
go sub-critical. A passive cure to the China Syndrome?
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01203.html
On Oct 24, 2004, at 3:21 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:50:24
-0800:
Hi Horace,
[snip]
I had a similar idea a while back. I suggested suspending the fuel
rods in a reactor with a plug of metal that has a very specific
melting point, set to be several hundred degrees above the normal
operating temperature of the reactor, but well below the danger
point for the containment. Then if the whole thing got too hot,
the plugs would melt, and the rods would fall into holes in a
boron containing solid below the reactor.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
