Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/Foto/articoli/ecat071011-3.jpg > > Thanks, Terry. The corrugated thing at the top which looks like a radiator is the cell. It is a little hard to see from the photo, but I gather you can actually see inside the box below the cell somewhat more than you can from this photo. When I talk about displacement I mean that they poured out all of the water remaining in the cell after one of the runs, and it was roughly as much as you would expect from a box of that size minus the displacement of the cell. There is no room left over for a hidden block of concrete, or an 8 kW heater, butane fuel, or what have you. What you can see accounts for all of the space, as measured by the volume of water. You can also see that there is no room in the walls to hide material with much thermal mass, or much butane fuel, or anything else. If there was pre-heated material in the walls, no matter how good the installation is, the walls would be warm to the touch and people would have noticed that when they picked the reactor up to put on the weight scale. You can see from the rust and wear that this has been tested several times. - Jed
