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One of my offices in grad school had an experimental nuclear reactor (run by students!) in the next building, maybe 25 or 30 feet away. Didn't bother me a bit.
by Turing_Machine 5y ago
One of my offices in grad school had an experimental nuclear reactor (run by students!) in the next building, maybe 25 or 30 feet away.
Didn't bother me a bit.
And I still even have the regulation number of heads and other appendages.
- pfdietz 5y agoProbably a TRIGA reactor, which wasn't experimental. These have U-Zr hydride fuel with such a strong instantaneous negative temperature feedback that one could instantly remove all the control rods from the reactor and it would still settle down to steady power output without catastrophe. I don't think they're suitable for power production though (I think the burnup the fuel can support is too low?)