Hum, seems hard to do. my point of view is that maybe it will be replacing the full core, with Ni, H, primary cooling, and maybe electronic... once shutdown, the reactor will be simply plumbed/pluged-out like a printer cartridge...
it can also look like the modern anti-stealing autoradio, where most of intelligence and price is removable. 2012/1/13 Robert Lynn <robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com> > At a minimum a replaceable cartridge needs to have an additional supply of > hydrogen - and that means a sealable connection (not something you would > necessarily trust a muppet consumer with - a lot of people don't even know > how to tighten a nut. Also if we are to believe recent speculation about > RF excitation that that would need to be delivered to the inside of the > cartridge somehow. > > My speculation is that it is just the addition of an extra dose of powder > through a sealable port into an oversized reaction chamber - the old powder > may be somewhat inert but the new powder's activity isn't hampered by the > presence of the old. > >
