Intro to Reactors 3: Moderators and Coolants

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In this series, I will teach you the basics of nuclear reactors. The technical level will be for an informed citizen audience, not a nuclear engineer audience (although maybe you will think differently lol). In Part 3, I go in-depth on Moderators and Coolants and answer these questions: what is a moderator, what is a coolant, and why might you pick one moderator or coolant over another?
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References:
Reactors and Fuels & Nuclear Reactors: • Reactors and Fuels & N...
Reactors, Fuels & Associated Subjects: Graphite Moderated - Allen Croff: • Reactors, Fuels & Asso...
Reactor Fuels - Allen Croff: • Reactor Fuels - Allen ...
Moderating Ratio - MR: www.nuclear-power.com/glossar...
Lamarsh, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, 3rd Ed.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:10 What Is a Moderator?
03:09 Moderating Ratio
06:49 Welcome to the Real World (of Moderators)
07:56 Moderators: Light Water
10:39 Moderators: Heavy Water
11:44 Moderators: Beryllium
14:12 Moderators: Graphite
15:51 Coolants
18:27 Coolants: Water
20:04 Coolants: Organics
21:17 Coolants: Liquid Metals (and Molten Salts)
26:52 Coolants: Gases
29:48 Outro

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@matthayward7889 6 ай бұрын

Another fantastic video. I was out when I got the notification, but watched it soon as I got home! 4:23 , 14:01 I’ll never not chuckle if you use that phrase

@swokatsamsiyu3590 6 ай бұрын

Same here😁

@swokatsamsiyu3590 6 ай бұрын

Yes, Episode three is here! Thus far I'm really enjoying this series. I cannot wait when you get into the truly reactor-y bits^^ And thanks to you I finally managed to get to grips with "neutron scattering". The other nuclear physics parts I have down quite well (yes, even the Xenon poisoning weirdness), although I couldn't do any of the chicken scratch formulas if my life depended on it. But the whole scattering thing kept eluding me. Your explanation finally made it click. Excellent! On to Episode four it is😄

@TheAtomicAgeCM 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. Glad to hear the scattering thing has finally clicked!