Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Wol. > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 13:39:35 +0100, Wols Lists wrote: >> On 17/06/2024 12:17, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> Sadly, the FBR never made it into commercial deployment. >> Was that the one with the heavy water moderator? So a thermal runaway >> was impossible because you'd have no moderator left? > It was a long time ago, but as far as I remember, the physics is that > the plutonium reacts with fast unmoderated neutrons (hence "fast > reactor"). > > Anyway, we've kind of drifted off topic, here. Maybe we should stop > this discussion. ;-) > >> Cheers, >> Wol
Awe come on. I was enjoying reading this. :-D I always wondered why they can't make a nuclear reactor that would fail to a safe mode. We can go to the moon, build skyscrapers that reach the clouds and seriously fast puters but we can't build a completely safe nuclear reactor. I might add, all the nuclear power plant failures I've ever heard of were caused by humans doing something they shouldn't. Maybe puters should be in charge of those things. :/ Dale :-) :-)
