The nuclear boy scout

[Speelgoedmannetje]

asian1 wrote:
Hi
It's a true story! I read about the Genius kid from Reader's Digest:

....Reader's Digest..... :roll: (no offense)

[Karlos]

Cymric wrote:

Is it possible to create a small, simple, portable and SAFE Nuclear Reactor for generating energy?

First define what you think is acceptably safe, then we'll continue the discussion :-).

Never trust an engineer until you had the maths checked by someone else ;-)

[Karlos]

@speel

Actually there was a documentary made about this too. Of course one shouldn't believe everything you see on TV, but in this case I'm inclined to.

[PMC]

Cymric wrote:

asian1 wrote:

Is it possible to create a small, simple, portable and SAFE Nuclear Reactor for generating energy?

First define what you think is acceptably safe, then we'll continue the discussion :-).

Not siting the reactor above a fault line, in a flood prone area or making sure the plant is kept in good working order all help.

The fall of communism in Eastern Europe allowed western nuclear inspectors into the Soviet era nuclear plants and they were apalled at what they saw.  Electrical relays were held in place with empty cigarette packs, a nuclear plant was actually constructed on top of a known fault line and employed some scarily low quality construction techniques.  

Of course, this yeilded the Soviet Union plentiful supplies of weapons grade material but the legacy of the old plants remain - as does the reactors inside dozens of rusting hulks permanantly moored in ex soviet naval yards.

[blobrana]

Hum,
is the University of California`s reactor hidden away under the gym building count/still working?


BTW There is the curious case of das boot U-234's uranium oxide shipment…

It’s worth a look at as a quirk of fate; canada/britian could have been the first to have had the bomb...but the boat was given up to the americans...and kicked started the the manhattan Project.