Light Water Reactors

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor - Advantages - Safety
... the MSRE test reactor) or well moderated core this reduces the reactivity ... There are no rapid violent reactions with water and air that sodium coolant has ... There is no combustible hydrogen production that water coolants have ...

Water - In Culture - Literature
... Water is used in literature as a symbol of purification ... Sherlock Holmes held that "From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other." ...

Beryllium Moderated Reactors - Comparison To Ordinary Light Water Reactors
... MSRs can be safer than ordinary light water reactors ... Also, the fuel salt does not burn in air or water, and are impervious to radiation ... Some types of molten salt reactors are very inexpensive ...

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor - Advantages - Economy and Efficiency
... Reactor efficiency ... Conventional reactors consume less than one percent of the mined uranium, leaving the rest as waste ... as much energy as 35 t of enriched uranium in conventional reactors (requiring 250 t of natural uranium), or 4,166,000 tonnes of black coal in a coal power plant ...

Nuclear Meltdown - Light Water Reactors - Speculative Failure Modes
... One scenario consists of the reactor pressure vessel failing all at once, with the entire mass of corium dropping into a pool of water (for example, coolant or moderator ... study asserted steam could produce enough pressure to blow the head off the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) ... preparing the overarching State-of-the-Art Reactor Consequence Analyses study - see the Disclaimer in NUREG-1150.) It has not been determined to what extent a molten mass ...