r/NuclearPower • u/ViewTrick1002 • 20h ago
r/NuclearPower • u/iheartfission • 5h ago
Nuclear Trivia Thursday?
I'll start. Which US plant uses municipal waste water as their cooling medium?
Here's a few things I want to know: 1. Does it smell bad there? 2. What is their supply flow rate? I imagine it would need to be 10k+ gom.
r/NuclearPower • u/TheCuriousicecream • 11h ago
My Concerns, Stated About the Kalpakkam PFBR, Please Share your opinions
Please, Kindly note that my concerns stated are facts, I do not thereby try to discourage on Kalpakkam, Or any nuclear power plant.
So, A PFBR is a Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor, it's a 500 MWe Sodium Cooled Fast Breeder Reactor, Second one in operations next to Russia. It Uses Uranium-Plutonium Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel with a Uranium-238 blanket to breed more fissile Plutonium-239 than it consumes. However, In a file of the development of PFBR, Even if it is a prototype, It has been stated that it has positive sodium void coefficient of upto 2+ $. In one of the files of "Conceptual Designs of PFBR core" It has been stated. 'A conventional homogeneous type of layout for the core
and blankets has been selected. Radial heterogeneous
configuration, inspite of advantages of higher breeding ratio and
reduced sodium void coefficient, was not considered due to
increase in Pu enrichment, higher fissile inventory, larger
overall core size, reduction in Doppler coefficient, increased
thermal striping protection requirements for above core
structures, and possible difficulty in achieving optimum
neutronic coupling between core zones without extensive
experimental studies.' And, As we know Positive Sodium Void coefficient, Is dangerous at a point, Regarding Feedback loop, And crossing the threshold of prompt criticality. Please Try to research and Reply ASAP. Thankyou for your time, Have a great day! 🤗