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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor This design has a lot of practical advantages, but seems to be sufferin
by jasonwatkinspdx 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor
This design has a lot of practical advantages, but seems to be suffering in the market from the same capital cost disease as other reactors.
- khuey 5y agoThis is a bit nit-picky, but a CANDU reactor does not fission U-238. Neutrons in a CANDU reactor are still thermal neutrons, and if you put pure U-238 in a CANDU reactor it won't run. A CANDU reactor does run on uranium with a lower amount of U-235 than a standard PWR design, and it does transmute some of that U-238 into Pu-239 which it then does fission, but it doesn't directly fission U-238 and it does require some baseline ratio of U-235 to operate.