Speaking of leaving it to experts, someone has written to me offline that this very issue of heat transfer was covered at Chennai by NRL - and they may have had similar reservations that this was even possible.
Weren't you there, and did they? J. * As I said, the reactor transfers 3 GW with 80,000 rods. That is approximately 37.5 kW per rod. (Previously I estimated per liter of rod.) That comes to 0.030 kW/cm^2. A liter-bottle shaped Rossi cell putting out 130 kW would be producing 0.216 kW/cm^2, an order of magnitude more. Whoa the 3 GW is for an entire year, correct? You need to divide that by 8000 to get the rate of heat transfer in kW/hr. The 130 kW presumable is based on an hour, or if it is based on the 15 minutes then it is much higher. Once again you are introducing systemic errors of 3 or 4 orders of magnitude. Now, I don't claim to be an expert either - so why not leave it to experts?
