Reactor goes brrr

I've always found it slightly funny that nuclear power is technically just a fancy steam engine.

Conveniently leaves the "get the fissile material" and "store the used fissile material" steps out.

Run low on water, stop reaction. Fission products keep getting hot even though reaction stopped. Not enough water to cool them off. Shit.

Same applies to geothermal.

lava is really hot

use lava to boil water

use steam to turn a generator

free electricity!

Chat is this legit gameplay or an exploit?

I love these, there's no way that would ever work

free

The only completed attempt in last 25 years in US (Vogtle), cost over $15/watt. Before fuel, operations, security, waste disposal plan, and no insurance.

Turnkey (containers full of batteries) systems in China are under $100/kwh. A possible imported cost of $100/kwh.

5gw of solar and 19gwh batteries would have higher capacity factor than nuclear, use same transmission infrastructure size, and cost $7/watt. Where winter production is not enough to fill batteries, the batteries can still be charged by wind or peaker plants that can run a bit more efficiently for a continuous time over a day instead of in bursts.

EZ It's not rocket science

i'm willing to have fizzle reactors on the moon. and mars. but i am not willing to shoot the fizzle materials via rockets to the moon or mars because of rockets tendency to blow up when designed and built by the humans.

i want no earth fizzle.

Plot twist: In the original timeline, nuclear power generation didnt exist. Some time in the future, OP will become a time traveller and end up getting stuck in the past and therefore brining this idea to fruition, which is why we are on this timeline.

(OP, got any aspirations got being a time traveler yet? Come on, ya gotta complete the time loop.)

I would hazard a guess that it ain't work like that.

You need a moderator to facilitate a slow fisson reaction. Some of the produced neutrons have misfit speed to create another fisson reaction.

Also note that fissile and radioactive is not the same, but you used them correctly.

Atom floats on atom

Somone send this to Remi

Jokes on you, this is what humanity has been doing for years. I have one at home as well.

Until you run out of that fissile material when you could just be using renewable energy...

I see all these pictures where the steam seemingly just escapes into the atmosphere.

Are there any designs where the cooling steam condenses and then pools and falls back down as liquid to turn even more turbines via gravity like hydroelectrics dams and then returns to the source pool to be reheated by the nuclear materials?