Next-Gen Nuclear Reactor Design

[kerbiloid]

Air Force Train?

With wings it flies?

Able to run for years or decades?

Somebody watched "Snowpiercer" too much.

[AHHans]

2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Air Force Train?

Yes, but not nuclear powered. From the linked article:

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For instance, the Air Force owns a fleet of diesel locomotives that are dedicated to bringing the base trainloads of coal, as well as other supplies, on a regular basis.

Another "interesting" textbite:

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"It should also be noted that numerous stakeholders have recommended that the first microreactor project in Alaska should be at a military base, possibly Eielson Air Force Base," where "DOD is not required to comply with State law,"

I translate that to: "We couldn't do that if we would have to ask the people living in that state."

[DDE]

A question out of the left field: are gas-cooled reactors quiet or loud?

Asking for a friend who's into wearing the dolphins /s

[kerbiloid]

They're hissing from joints.

[AHHans]

1 hour ago, DDE said:

A question out of the left field: are gas-cooled reactors quiet or loud?

They are hotter and need to pump more volume, so I guess(!) that they tend to be louder than water cooled reactors.

But I don't know what the major cause for noise is in dolphin reactors.

[DDE]

16 hours ago, AHHans said:

They are hotter and need to pump more volume, so I guess(!) that they tend to be louder than water cooled reactors.

But I don't know what the major cause for noise is in dolphin reactors.

The fact that boiling water reactors are even considered for submarines makes me very suspicious of common sense assumptions.

[AHHans]

1 hour ago, DDE said:

The fact that boiling water reactors are even considered for submarines

Do you have a source for that?

But otherwise you are right: I don't actually know!

[DDE]

5 hours ago, AHHans said:

Do you have a source for that?

...looks like the notion traces back to BMPD, a noted Russian defense RUMINT blog. It infers KPT-7I Phoenix was tested on the Sarov and will be fielded onboard the Khabarovsk.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4395693.html

Could be they're misinterpreting the integration of the heat exchnager into the hull. Or the BWR is for the Poseidon torpedo, since it's what the Sarov has been testing.

[kerbiloid]

7 hours ago, DDE said:

The fact that boiling water reactors are even considered for submarines makes me very suspicious of common sense assumptions.

 

Spoiler

  Otherwise where should they take boiling water for tea?

 

Though, there is a portable alternative

The plutonium pellets are put into the axial channel.

Edited October 23, 2021 by kerbiloid

[SOXBLOX]

25 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

The plutonium pellets are put into the axial channel.

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[DDE]

23 minutes ago, SOXBLOX said:

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[peadar1987]

On 10/22/2021 at 7:23 PM, DDE said:

A question out of the left field: are gas-cooled reactors quiet or loud?

Asking for a friend who's into wearing the dolphins /s

The big AGRs I worked on were low-hum quiet if you stood on top of the pile cap (but the gas circulators at the bottom were quite noisy, and the turbine-generator sets were deafening).

I never worked on a liquid-cooled reactor for comparison though.

[tater]

This is not power generation, but NTP, but who doesn't want to read a 688 page doc on particle bed reactors for NTP?

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/16386234.pdf

 

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