To: The_Victor
Well, apparently there are Water cooled reactors, Liquid metal cooled reactors, Sodium-cooled fast reactors, Lead-cooled fast reactors, Gas cooled reactors, Molten Salt Reactors, etc. I don’t know what kind of reactor is at issue in Japan and what coolant has been delivered.
12 posted on
03/11/2011 11:50:40 AM PST by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
To: nuke rocketeer; americanophile; ichabod1; Hardraade
Japan uses the same inherently stable reactor design that the US uses: water coolant. The water also drives the reaction by slowing neutrinos and reflecting them back into the reaction. Without the water in the reactor core the reaction dies out.
19 posted on
03/11/2011 11:55:50 AM PST by
The_Victor
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