we have a "natural"
reaction taking place that results in the hot water ?
Richard
- Original Message -
From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Fission 'diodes' and one-way criticality
In
In reply to Robin van Spaandonk's message of Sun, 15 May 2005
13:22:59 +1000:
Oops, it looks like I didn't get the sums right. Try 3.8%.
Hopefully better this time.
[snip]
>According to
>http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/centre/waisrc/OKLO/When/When.html,
>this was 2 billion (not million) years ago,
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 12 May 2005 21:23:04
-0700:
Hi,
[snip]
>The natural reactor at Oklo occurred 2 million years ago when all
>the uranium on earth was of significantly higher enrichment then
>it is now.
According to
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/centre/waisrc/OKLO/When
Original Message -
From: "Terry Blanton"
Yes. Do you think we used enough trigger words to attract the
Carnivores? ;-)
http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/
Well, my own spam filter snagged the original message... kinda
like bitten by one's own dog... not that I've fed it anything
> From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Claro?
Yes. Do you think we used enough trigger words to attract the Carnivores? ;-)
http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/
ADDENDA
Terry,
I'm sure you noticed the slight contradiction between,
You do not need an external source of neutrons at all in order
to burn refined yellowcake. The oxygen is not going to absorb
many neutrons. In fact a "natural reactor" using only surface
water as a moderator, continued for ov
- Original Message -
From: "Terry Blanton"
What I was asking was can you burn yellowcake with a sufficient
neutron source?
You do not need an external source of neutrons at all in order to
burn refined yellowcake. The oxygen is not going to absorb many
neutrons. In fact a "natural reac
Jones Beene wrote:
Yes, but you probably wouldn't use that anyway, as it is unproven.
There are plenty of commercial sources available now that will
reliably give you several thousand neuts per sec to start off the
linked and staged series of HWHR multipliers. Ironically, the biggest
market fo
- Original Message -
From: "Terry Blanton"
If I understand you, I can make a potbellied stove out of a
chunk of uranium ore and a controllable neutron source. :-)
Hmm...How much reactor grade heavy water do you have on hand to
fill it with?
Here is an overly simplified explanation of
Jones Beene wrote:
it is as simple (and as complicated) as that.
If I understand you, I can make a potbellied stove out of a chunk of
uranium ore and a controllable neutron source. :-)
Can you get enough neutrons out of Putterman's dilithium and maintain a
safe Kaysubef?
- Original Message -
From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How do you ensure that neutrons go up the chain, but not back
down
again? IOW how do you ensure that a flood of neutrons from the
last device in the chain, doesn't force the first device in the
chain to go supercritical
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 12 May 2005 10:36:06
-0700:
Hi Jones,
[snip]
>In summary, the bottom line objective for a low-cost subcritical
>reactor system distills down to a maximization of the neutron gain
>in a *succession* of linked asymmetrical subsystems, but without
>heighte
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