A water contact heat sink should have a VERY low thermal resistance. The
reactor core temp would probably go up slowly as the heat sink failed to
get rid of the excess heat. What was scary to me was what would have
happened if the core had melted as the lead shielding would probably
have melted first.
AG
On 11/21/2011 7:57 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Aussie Guy E-Cat <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
130 kWs of heat coming from something the size of a small door
knob is really scary.
How about burning gasoline? Not sure what the power density is.
Anyway, I doubt it was actually 130 kW. It was very high, no doubt. It
was scary. But I believe there may have been some heat going through
the metal of the machine to the thermocouple. I am sure there was none
at the lower temperatures.
We discussed this in great detail here last February.
- Jed
