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That's part of some newer reactor designs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_catcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_catcher
by philipkglass 9y ago
That's part of some newer reactor designs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_catcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_catcher
- petre 9y agoExpensive. The concrete can also crack in the event of an earthquake.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoNot as expensive as having to clean up three reactors worth of nuclear meltdown and a few exploded reactors. I'm sure they can prevent the concrete from cracking in an earthquake.
- petre 9y agoCheaper solutions exist, such as the one with borosilicate sand on the bottom of the reactor. Building passive cooling pools with those resources is orders of magnitude more useful because it prevents a meltdown rather than attempting to catch the molten core. The ESBWR uses such a passive cooling design. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Simplified_Boiling_Water_Reactor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Simplified_Boiling_...