I have been thinking about what should be inside the inner box as the heat transfer from the reactor core to the fluid is no longer done inside the door knob like reactor.

Rossi says there are 3 cores inside each module and that is all he says. I would suggest he may have encased all the cores inside a solid lead slab like structure with a thermal interface compound applied to the top and bottom surfaces so as to thermally transfer the heat into the upper and assumed lower fin assemblies. What we see with the bolts is the upper surface of the heat exchanger assembly and likely an identical assembly (why make it different) on the bottom. The lead slab with the embedded cores is then sandwiched inside and between the heat exchanger fin assemblies. I also suggest as he said the 1 MW demo was only running on 1 core per module, he has a was to activate and deactivate the internal cores as desired. This adds additional weight to my belief that the "RF Wires" are actually multi core shielded cable or if not he maybe running a power line comms system that delivers both power and 2 way data to the 3 cores. Easy to do today, especially if he has a micro inside to assist the core control and do data logging that can be later accessed for analysis.

Having a solid lead slab structure would aid modular maintenance and module fuel replacement as all the the maintenance guys would need do is replace the lead slab with the 3 embedded reactor cores, which would then be returned to Rossi for replacement of the fuel.

From the weight of the E-Cat module, there is more inside the boxes than just 3 door knob reactors, a bit of piping, fins, walls and a few nuts and bolts.

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