Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ...
by piannucci on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:25PM
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1. Don’t let that happen.
2. There have been proposals before for core dilution buckets: a wide shallow dish under the reactor full of something like gallium for the hot core to dissolve into. As it spreads out into the dish, the heat and radiation fluxes become less unmanageable, and the core material becomes less critical.
2. There have been proposals before for core dilution buckets: a wide shallow dish under the reactor full of something like gallium for the hot core to dissolve into. As it spreads out into the dish, the heat and radiation fluxes become less unmanageable, and the core material becomes less critical.
3. Don’t let that happen. :-P