Very clever design, much more efficent, much safer - negative temp coeff and no chance of a steam explosion. But they never reached the critical mass (sorry) to make them standard and so cheap to build and operate.
Here in Canada they shut down the worlds major reactor for producing medical isotopes - because the secondary backup diesel generator failed an inspection. It didn't matter how many cancer patients died because of the…
Very clever design, much more efficent, much safer - negative temp coeff and no chance of a steam explosion. But they never reached the critical mass (sorry) to make them standard and so cheap to build and operate.
Here in Canada they shut down the worlds major reactor for producing medical isotopes - because the secondary backup diesel generator failed an inspection. It didn't matter how many cancer patients died because of the…