In reply to Akira Shirakawa's message of Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:32:07 +0200: Hi,
One drawback I foresee is that by packing them all together in a small container, he is making it difficult to replace an individual unit "on the fly". IOW it may be difficult to extract a single defective unit while keeping the rest running. That implies losing the only advantage that exists by ganging multiple small units together to form a large one. >On 2012-08-30 00:31, Jojo Jaro wrote: > >> I did some rough calculations. With diameter of the cylinder at 1.2 m, >> the area is 1.13 m2. Assuming that the coolant pipes take up about 50% >> if this area, and fitting remaining area with 100 reactors. Each >> reactor would have a diameter of 4.2 cm. Each 4.2 cm dia. reactor would >> be producing 10KW. > >I think the diameter of each reactor is supposed to be that of the model >shown in the "leaked" photo some time back, which was of 9 cm. >By the way, I've seen suggested around that this design vaguely reminds >that of CANDU nuclear fission reactors (at a much smaller scale). See >here: http://www.nucleartourist.com/type/candu2.htm > >Cheers, >S.A. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
