Ninetytwo hundred thermonuclear reactors in tandem.

They enbomb with horrories, whoosh with furnaces.

Now we don't use that because we're stupid, we use it because the limitations of pressurized water mean that you can't get it all that hot.

Perhaps you'd like to visit my fiery furnace!

Its volume increases roughly by a factor of 1000.

It's an incredibly massive operation, I think 15,000 workers, five cupolas, and the sixth one's coming in here.

Babcock amp Wilcox that make nuclear reactors, here's an integral fast reactor.

Fumes and furnaces!

We've got a perfect fire.

Outpost incinerator.

Reactor core temperature.

To the reactor?

That's how much thermal energy the reactor's putting out to how much electricity it's producing.

The reactors we have today use uranium oxide as a fuel. It's a ceramic material, chemically stable, but not very good at transferring heat.

One, it doesn't operate at high pressure.

To the incinerator.

The tsunami hit about an hour after the reactors were shut down. Fission was long gone by the time the tsunami came along.

Angrily you spit your sparks at me for taming your proud spirit!

I had the good fortune to learn about a different form of nuclear power.

Reactor bay.

You're always

And these reactors run at 600 to 700 degrees Celsius, which means the higher the temperature you go to, thermodynamics tells you that you will have higher efficiencies.

LFTR is a molten salt reactor. All LFTRs are molten salt reactors but not all molten salt reactors are LFTRs.

Swish, rustle. He was working in a room with an open fireplace, he said.

Then what happens to the waste?

The one nearest the fire.

Would you like to sit and stare at the fake fire?

Put in a real fire pit.

The reactor is close.

If there's an emergency and you lose all of the power to your nuclear power plant, the little blower stops blowing, the frozen plug of salt melts, and the liquid fluoride fuel inside the reactor drains out of the vessel through the line and into another tank called a drain tank.

I've been dipped in.

What are your thoughts on the traveling wave reactor?

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Right here by the fireplace.

I haven't seen an incinerator for years.

and looked after her here in the warm.

I have some good friends in nuclear industry. They are very big advocates of the fast breeder reactor.

Then instead of a burner here that would be injecting fuel, like a combustion system, you would have this heat exchanger with a reactor. It would make the air hot, then the air would exhaust through the turbine and make thrust.

A clamshell is hard.

So that's my fusion reactor in the background there.

And this is what it is.

Uh, put it right over the fireplace there.

70millimeter tube furnace. Excellent.

Reactor, that's right.

You were running a high fever, but it's broken now.