Category Archives: Nuclear

Three-Fluid Splits from Civilisation

Posted on 2011-12-14 by

I’ve split out the 3-fluid reactor concept from the main Energy for Civilisation page to a sub-page under Energy to Live There’s a table-of contents to sections on the greatly-expanded sub-page which now has an introduction to provide some background, … Continue reading →

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Core Thoughts

Posted on 2011-09-19 by

A moderator to thermalize the neutrons is highly desirable to maximise the probability of fission and transmutation while minimising the inventory of fissile and fertile materials in the reactor. A possible moderator for a molten-salt reactor may be colloidal graphite … Continue reading →

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Moderately successful

Posted on 2011-09-14 by

Found some useful data on thermalizing moderators in CANDU documents: The number of collisions to thermalize in inversely proportional to the mass of the moderator. Now need to relate that to an optimum moderator thickness to achieve the necessary physical … Continue reading →

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