Robert Leguillon <[email protected]> wrote: Maybe I'd overlooked this, when did they measure and film the outpouring > water?
Yes, many people saw the water and bubbles moving through the hose. FURTHERMORE, we know with certainty that there was steam or hot water coming out of the reactor into the heat exchanger, because if there had not been, the temperature sensors would have fallen to tap water temperature. We saw that during the first two hours of the test. Nothing came out of the reactor, and both cooling loop thermocouples registered tap water temperature. Something had to be coming out of the reactor the entire time. It had to be coming out at a flow rate large enough to deliver lots of heat to those thermocouples. Some people say the thermocouples were poorly placed. I do not think this made any significant difference but suppose it did. We still know that those thermocouples were registering a real temperature rise, and -- to reiterate -- we saw in the first two hours they would have registered nothing only tap water temperatures if flow rate had dropped to zero. I believe I mentioned this a couple of times. This is the kind of observation people should bear in mind. - Jed
