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How would you turn off the outside source, and how would the mechanism differ from existing safety features?
by karpierz 6y ago
How would you turn off the outside source, and how would the mechanism differ from existing safety features?
- VBprogrammer 6y agoThe Wikipedia page is a lot more detailed than I could hope to be, presumably you just turn off the power to the particle accelerator. Existing safety measures rely on some degree of integrity in the reactor at the time they are triggered. If it gets too damaged before the control rods are inserted it may not be possible to insert them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcritical_reactor#:~:text=A%20subcritical%20reactor%20is%20a,neutrons%20from%20an%20outside%20source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcritical_reactor#:~:text=....