1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88k [video]

Re:1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88... by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:53PM (#25389243)

By putting enough resistors inside, and pumping 100 MW of electricity in? If you're a utility trying this out, you can probably handle that (for some hours, maybe not for weeks).

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Re:1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88... by BlueTemplar on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:20PM (#25393013)

Are there any resistors that would not melt under this situation?

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Re:1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88... by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:02PM (#25393474)

Good question. There are two issues, the power and the temperature. The power is easy(ish) - just put enough resistors in there, and you're good. (If you physically can put enough resistors in that space, which... I don't know.)

But you also want to run it at reactor temperatures. I don't know what that is, but finding resistors that won't melt may be anywhere from difficult to impossible.

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