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Wouldn't currently available nukes take way too long to ramp up and down for this use case?
by dividedbyzero 4y ago
Wouldn't currently available nukes take way too long to ramp up and down for this use case?
- etimberg 4y agoIn general, after a nuclear plant is shut down, it has to be kept off for a few days to let Xe-135 completely decay. Quoting from Wikipedia [1] " After about 3 days of shutdown, the core can be assumed to be free of 135Xe, without it introducing errors into the reactivity calculations" 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_pit#Fission_products_decay_and_burnup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_pit#Fission_products_de...