This sounds odd to me...i was on nuclear subs...i’m pretty sure you can adjust the output of a reactor by the rods.
The liberals wants clean energy, but then they discredit most kinds of clean energy. The liberals hate nuclear energy and they want to make McCain’s plan look bad because they don’t want nuclear power, even though it is one of the few viable alternatives to fossil based sources of energy.
“This sounds odd to me...i was on nuclear subs...i’m pretty sure you can adjust the output of a reactor by the rods.”
Well you were on ssns but I don’t think the rods are used to regulate power output to a sub. Anyone want to chime in?
If you adjust the power output by the rods, you get some weird power fluctuations because of the xenon and samarium. The commercial PWRs use boric acid concentration in the reactor coolant to make power changes.
The following is NOT Classified; applies to virtually all saturated steam pressurized water reactors.
Power level in such reactors is adjusted with marveloulsly elegant simplicity.
Opening the throttles wider (and thus demanding more power to the turbines) lowers the steam pressure, and thus lowers steam temperature (saturated system) this lowers the temperature of primary water returning to the reactor; cooler water => more dense=> better moderation => drives up fission rate.