Reactor core temperature.

The assembly is still subcritical. We began to transfer the fuel elements one by one, and started loading the reactor core.

And I'm really excited about this, because it's a very compact core.

Well, we're securing them, and it would be great if we could burn them, eat them up, and this reactor loves this stuff.

The fireplace lends coziness to this room.

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

The nearmeltdown a few weeks back...

Because your fuel is liquid, and it's combined with your coolant, you could actually just drain the core into what's called a sub critical setting, basically a tank underneath the reactor that has some neutrons absorbers.

Fumes and furnaces!

We've got a perfect fire.

Outpost incinerator.

To the reactor?

One, it doesn't operate at high pressure.

To the incinerator.

That thing could melt down when he tries to fire the core.

No refueling means you can seal them up and they're not going to be a proliferation risk, and they're not going to have either nuclear material or radiological material proliferated from their cores.

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

Reactor bay.

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.

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.

This is really good! This was the genesis of the idea of the fast breeder reactor, a reactor that was based around having fast neutrons and plutonium fuel.

What are your thoughts on the traveling wave reactor?

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.

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.

If you lose pressure, you lose your water, and soon your fuel will melt down and release the radioactive fission products within it.

To go any further you would have to have breeder technology.

Ninetytwo hundred thermonuclear reactors in tandem.

Do I light the fire?

You put the slices in the end and then you cook them over the hearth.

Ship. I'm on my way to the reactor.

Why would you want to go to the reactor?