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Sounds neat, but isn't like the number 1 most important thing at a reactor keeping it cooled? You can do that underground in Klei’s Oxygen Not Included — synth
by Eric_WVGG 2y ago
Sounds neat, but isn't like the number 1 most important thing at a reactor keeping it cooled?
You can do that underground in Klei’s Oxygen Not Included — synthesize some supercoolant, run it through an aquatuner, eat up the waste heat with steam turbines, maybe throw a wheezewort someplace for good measure… but I might be missing some steps.
- jmyeet 2y agoWater is generally used to cool nuclear reactors. And you're heating water so it's kind of a 2-for-1. You could even have a separate cooling loop with a heat exchange with the water you're boiling to avoid any radioactive containment, I guess? I don't know what the failure modes for this look like. These are small reactors. Is there enough fuel for it go critical? I would assume not. What happens if there's a containment breach? Will it start releasing radioactive steam? The whole thing is still at a conceptual stage.