Timeline for How to make the connection between the *energy* released by the fission of uranium and the *power* of a nuclear plant?
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| Aug 31, 2020 at 21:27 | comment | added | Rick | I think that the idea comes from Chernobyl. People see that the building exploded and think that was the uranium, not the hydrogen build up. Though if you release 33000 MW of power in one shot, that could be an explosion! | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 4:09 | comment | added | NuclearFission | Modern light water reactors can't "explode", at least in the sense of a bomb. There is no "limit of explosion". I'm very curious where this idea came from. | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 15:50 | comment | added | Rick | An easy way to think of the control rods is how much heat they regulate being generated. | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 15:46 | comment | added | Mathieu Krisztian | @Solomon Slow : thank you. | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 15:46 | vote | accept | Mathieu Krisztian | ||
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| Aug 30, 2020 at 15:46 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | @MathieuKrisztian, The control rods don't directly control the power output. What they control is closer to the rate of change of the power output. But really, it's even worse than that because there's a time lag: They really control what the rate of change of the power output will be in a few seconds from the moment when they are moved. Just part of the reason why designing, building, and operating the things is so ****ed complicated. | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 15:42 | comment | added | Mathieu Krisztian | Thank you. Do I understand that if a nuclear plant wish to have the "optimal" power, it could decide to put control rods "just below" the limit of the nuclear explosion. Why don't they do that ? This is physics, so if they are "just below", with a automated (and working) system, there is no risk of explosion. Are nuclear plant power far below the physics limit before explosion (thus far below the maximum power that they could obtain) ? | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 15:36 | history | answered | Rick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |