If you zoom in very closely on the hot reactor photos you can see the the dark lines are of uniform width, continuity and shade. I am 95% confident that is the shadow of the coil. The light areas change in brightness, width, etc.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Robert Lynn <[email protected] > wrote: > how do you know this? How do you know the the wire is not the brightest > area? > > On 15 October 2014 15:06, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Some people suspect that the resistor wire can't be Inconel because they >> are predicted to melt at the reactor's operating temperature. However, >> since we know the resistor wire casts a shadow in the alumina, the >> temperature of the wire remains below the operating temperature and >> therefore can't melt. >> >> Harry >> > >
