Message from @Lucienne d'Anwyl
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why would you ? the rods would be usless
If it's in the floor, then mass isn't a problem. Put whatever you want in there.
Keep coolant flowing.
The water is also about slowing reaction
uh mass is the problem dude
it is a closed system
i dont think you know how nukes are arranged
fuel rods are in a tight lattice
you can't use water from the enviornment
in the core
a very tight one
and thus any closed system only has so much water
not a whole lot of room
that water will boil off
PV=nRT
steam creates pressure
and blow the closed coolant system
Why not give it room to do exactly that? Turn to steam, and go somewhere else.
This is why they build them inside giant concreate spheres so that if it does go boom the radiation cannot escape
uh
cause it is about 1000x an expansion
it cant cool down your shit anymore
lol
not to mention having superheated steam
exploding your reactor
isnt exactly a good thing
The steam explosion is the problem. If you can avoid that, a meltdown just fucks up you reactor and requires a lengthy repair process.
so for every 1cubic ft of watter, you'd need 1000cuft to hold the steam at the same pressure
no
just tell it to chill
a real meltdown
the rods
Uranium gets hot enough to melt.
will evaporate the coolant
they will
melt through the concrete
yeah, the rods are also a problem
It wouldn't just fuck the reactor though it'd melt through the floor imao
melt through the ground
even the spend fuel genrates heat