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You'd have to place both cores within the same reactor pressure vessel, which isn't possible.

• hinkley 6y ago
  So as long as the reactor vessel is intact it absorbs 100% of the neutrons? Going out as well as coming in? Because in a failure you’ll have only one pressure vessel between the two cores. If everything else goes right.
  • jabl 6y ago
    > So as long as the reactor vessel is intact it absorbs 100% of the neutrons? Going out as well as coming in? Neutron diffusion is a statistical process, so yeah, a small amount of neutrons will escape through the reactor wall. But not enough that the neutron flux from one reactor would influence the next one in any measurable way. > Because in a failure you’ll have only one pressure vessel between the two cores. If everything else goes right. Yes, also in this case.