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A very dangerous device. I suppose you have heard about that irresponsible experiment conducted in 1986 where they simply turned off all cooling to a reactor?
by 08-15 7y ago
A very dangerous device. I suppose you have heard about that irresponsible experiment conducted in 1986 where they simply turned off all cooling to a reactor? Remember what happened?
No, not Chernobyl. I'm talking about EBR-II, a fast reactor. Nothing happened. That's how dangerous the device is!
- choeger 7y agoYou mean a reactor that is cooled with Sodium, a material that, according to Wikipedia, spontaneously explodes when it comes into contact with a rare substance called water?
- 08-15 7y agoNot spontaneously, only when contacting water. But you see, there is no water in such a reactor. And it can't get in, because if water can get in, other stuff can get out, and stuff getting out of a reactor is a disaster anyway, so the thing is a closed system. Even though, since sodium cooled reactors are not pressurized, stuff wouldn't necessarily come out of a small leak. On the other hand, water at 300C and 200bar will explode spontaneously without coming into contact with anything. A steam explosion is no fun, according to Wikipedia.