(April 23, 2020 at 12:05 am)Fireball Wrote:(April 22, 2020 at 9:36 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: A type of reactor that runs a "dry pile" using salts as coolant. Neat idea - but the materials- like Hasteloy- needed to withstand the combinationa of salt corrosion and neutrino enbrittlement - are expensive and a motherfucker to machine.. (I have made parts out of it... .)OH. Molten Salt Reactors. My experience is with US Naval Pressurized Light Water Reactors, though I did get a bit of exposure to nuclear theory during my physics training and subsequent work in plasma isotope separation. I think that you meant neutron embrittlement, btw, not neutrino. Just a nit-pick. I was a Navy "nuke", made it through the first 6 months of classroom, and was at the hands-on training unit and celebrating making 2nd class when some people got into a "disagreement" in a local bar. It was boots and fists and pool cues all over the place. I was no longer a "nuke" or a PO2. I was lucky that the locals turned me over to the Navy for my special court-martial. Kind of hard to hide that you've been in a brawl when you show up at quarters without your glasses and big ol' knot on the side of your head from a pool cue.
Plus - added bonus - all the shit that needs frequent replacing is radioactively hot for centuries. It's a 50 year old idea that never went anywhere because of cost.
Ask a nuke about the particulars... I'm just a schmuck who got a lecture about it...I just didn't run from the scene fast enough, I guess.
Yup. You probably right - neutron. Not neutrino.. Like I said - I'm not a nuke... I just had a friend explain some of this shit 20+ years ago and you got what stuck in my head....
