The MeV reactor needs years of development. For example, the 2.5 kw module should be encapsulated in a tube that is replaceable on-the-fly to maximize reactor availability.
With all those hundreds of modules, unless this is done, the reactor will be down for maintenance about 90% of the time. I would not use stainless steel; instead I would use a good thermal metal like zirconium in a long thin tube configuration. This tube should not be directly exposed to the water coolant. The tube should be built like a large vacuum tube with a multi-pronged socket at one end to allow the operator to remove and insert this modular without taking down the entire reactor. Electrical and hydrogen connections comprise this socket. This type of design takes time but such design must be done to make a valid and usable commercial product. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Axil Axil wrote: > > The control system for the 1 MeV mature Rossi reactor would be completely > computerized and directed. A SCADA system would monitor the temperature of > the water, reaction vessel, and catalyst on all 300 units. . . . > > > > Such an automated control system would take a year or two to develop if > everything goes just right. > > > That's what I have been thinking. Something along those lines. I can't > imagine doing that in 6 months. As I said, that rivals the Manhattan Project > for speed. In the Manhattan Project they cut corners and built factories > with things like cooling problems so big, they had to have firetrucks parked > outside spraying the cooling towers. It was rush job. > > Maybe he intends to use old fashioned analog feed-back techniques, rather > than computerized methods. He strikes me as "an analog person in a digital > world" (what Mizuno calls himself). Sometimes the old way are the good ways. > > In the video, they said they have the 20 kW prototype sewn up and ready to > go. So why on earth is Rossi doing this 1 MW extravaganza!?! This gigantic > tour de force will be obsolete the week after it is complete. It's mind > boggling to me. As I said, it reminds me of those gigantic multi-engined > airplanes so popular in the 1920s and 30s, or the UNIVAC LARC supercomputer, > with all those circuit cards and banks of tape drives. A magnificent > achievement but a nightmare of complexity. It was asking too much of the > technology of that time. > > - Jed > >
