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A Primer on Nuclear Safety: 1.3.1 Heat, Water and Steam
Posted on June 18, 2008
1.3.1 Heat, Water and SteamThe Navy's reactorWe have seen how Alvin Weinberg's toy water moderated Low Intensity Test Reactor emulated many features of the natural reactors at Oklo. This was all inadvertent of course, because the Oklo reactors had not yet been discovered. One Oklo feature the Low Intensity Test Reactor did not emulate was the production of steam. So when Weinberg and his staff set out to design a reactor that could be used by the Navy, they had to to design a reactor that could produce steam.The pressurized water reactor in many respects resembles a boiler. Water contain...
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