Showing posts with label Control Rod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Control Rod. Show all posts
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Enrichment, burnable poison, and self-poisoning

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 "Difficulty shows what men are.  Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has match...
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Saturday, February 01, 2014

K-431 (Project 675)

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K-431 was an Echo II class submarine.  Construction was started in January 1964, and she was commissioned in September of 1965, in a very ra...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

K-27, Project 645 (645 Кит-ЖМТ)

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The Soviet and US Navies operated a large number of submarines, each generation improving in quality.  A silent covert game of cloak and dag...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

TRIGA - an amazingly safe nuclear research reactor

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So far we have talked about natural reactors, fast neutron reactors, plutonium production reactors, and thermal power plant reactors. Ther...

The reactor with a hole in its head...

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In 2002 the US came very close to having a massive loss of coolant accident that probably would have led to major core melting (melt-down), ...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Boiling Water Reactors

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Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) are a fairly common design in electrical generation.  The advantage a BWR has over a Pressurized Water Reactor...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Nuclear Reactors - How they work (part 2)

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Previously (part 1) we had a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) which was critical and adding heat to the coolant/moderator.  After the reacto...