Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> *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? > I was there, but I do not recall they mentioned any problem with heat transfer. As it happens, two of the people at NRL assisted me this morning with information about reactor cores and so on. I often depend upon the kindness of experts because I am prone to dropping orders of magnitude and mixing up megawatts and megabytes. I will forward this thread and ask them if they suspect the 130 kW may be impossible from a heat transfer point of view. We did not discuss that. We agreed, however, that the 16 kW is in line with a typical electric heater or teapot. There is no disputing that. You do realize, I hope, that Kullander et al. are experts. - Jed
