Brian H wrote:
Excellent find. Slightly edited for spelling, etc., here’s the relevant excerpt:
The main shielding is for the residual neutrons—about 80-100 cm of water and 20 cm of boron-10 with a small, few-cm layer of lead to absorb the gammas. None of the x-rays will get through that.
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5) What are the approximate dimensions of the proposed reactor?
Reactor plus shielding is 2 meters across but the whole thing, including capacitor bank may be more like 3x2x2 meters.
Which are the figures I’ve been working with for my notional first-gen application implementations… so an inline dual-core could be about 5x2x2?
core |caps| core } 2m
<—- 5m—->
… 10MW at the proposed initial 5MW/core settings… damn that’s small…
