If a reactor is physically incapable of providing the energy, then steam is incapable of boiling violently and Chernobyl is incapable of exploding. You know, like a bomb that doesn't work.
That's why I thought, dropping a tiny subcritical ball of uranium in a moderated core and setting it off...
I am not a nuclear scientist.
Surely if a reactor cannot explode it needs no explosion proofing. Well, yeah, if.......the core collapses and forms a critical mass, then we can forget about negative void/power/whatever coefficient.
I just think that Ukraine should make it's next nuclear power...
Since graphite in solid rocket nozzles need NO COOLING, they are VERY SIMPLE. But hot graphite burns with air and oxidiser, so liquid engines don't use it (so I gather). How do people with knowledge on rocket engines think of the following chamber wall designs:
-Graphite wall lined with...
Imagine if a Mars mission failed because the toilet broke and everybody got sick and died.
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