Nuclear Reactor Core

[RxCritical]

For those of you who have never seen one.

A empty nuclear reactor core:
http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp114/RxCritical/2012-10-03_17-05-33_408.jpg

A partially refuelled reactor core:
http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp114/RxCritical/2012-10-04_06-46-25_417.jpg

[VatorMan]

Yea, no one believed me when I told them the rod pool glows blue. :lol:

[Burro (He/Haw)]

Our RFO starts in 3 weeks. Ugh.

[78SA]

:cool1:

[Bill]

:cool1:

:iagree:

And nuke workers.....thanks for keeping the lights on.

[RxCritical]

Our RFO starts in 3 weeks. Ugh.

Enjoy, I know I am. Spending quality time in the Outage Control Center.:D

[Burro (He/Haw)]

Enjoy, I know I am. Spending quality time in the Outage Control Center.:D

I got stuck up there last outage for two weeks when our RHR pump took a shit. WAY too much drama for me. :D

[Kerrmudgeon]

We're lucky to have the highly qualified people who work there as well. :yesnod:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k26cMs_s8ko/TZIHAXzSZVI/AAAAAAAAAUE/lunHQcidK1s/s1600/Ommer.jpg

[69camfrk]

Yea, no one believed me when I told them the rod pool glows blue. :lol:

Lamont, you big dummy, the municipal pool here in town glows blue at night and I'm pretty sure it's not nukeyaler!!!:D:leaving:

Oh....cool pics.:seasix:

[bsmith]

I got stuck up there last outage for two weeks when our RHR pump took a shit. WAY too much drama for me. :D

Drama?
You should work at the Fort Calhoun plant. :willy:

[99 pewtercoupe]

Never seen the inside of one...but one time I was sitting in a small room with about twelve differnt ones all floating within about a 1000 yards of me.

[Blademaker]

I've never seen that, thanks for sharing. :seasix:

[Burro (He/Haw)]

Drama?
You should work at the Fort Calhoun plant. :willy:
You guys are still offline right?

[bsmith]

You guys are still offline right?

I don't work there...just hear stories.

Yes, they are still offline.
Last I heard, they plan to start warming up in December.

[Craig]

Cool. Ex-Navy nuke here.

[Shrike6]

Ah! Cherenkov radiation! :seasix:

[CP]

Yea, no one believed me when I told them the rod pool glows blue. :lol:

Blue LEDs

[mrvette]

Thanks for the pix, I never got all that close to the pile, but was taken on a cook's tour of a plant under full tilt operation once, ~30 years ago, it was neat, setting on the main deck with all that whole football stadium+ size building rocking and rolling, and that HUGE alternator putting out some OMG like 1300 MEGAWATTS of power, enough to run the city of Baltimore....looking at the HUGE nutz on two of the 3 phases and the OMG size wire, my question was just WTF they use for a wrench to tighten a nut that looks about 6' across....

but it was here in Florida I got to do the tour after my bit was done....

I remember a main power turbine rotor setting on major timber supports, the bearings supported by rubber pads, and me asking why the rubber, they replied it was to keep it from spinning in the constant breeze passing through the structure, Henderson Island near Ft. Lauderdale....

I loved that job, got to see lots of interesting shit, only negative was the prisons I had to visit, bunch of crap....it was doing security work....

:seasix::hurray:

[Burro (He/Haw)]

Gene, when they tension the reactor head for instance, they don't really tighten the nut, they stretch the stud and spin the nut down by hand. It's pretty cool to watch.

The HUGE nuts you're talking about are tightened with a hydraulic tool called a Hy-Torc. :cert:

[JRC27]

Don't you guys mean the Outta Control Center?? In other news, i think my Rx operators license is waiting at the post office for me. Got it done in 13 months :leaving:

[mrvette]

Gene, when they tension the reactor head for instance, they don't really tighten the nut, they stretch the stud and spin the nut down by hand. It's pretty cool to watch.

The HUGE nuts you're talking about are tightened with a hydraulic tool called a Hy-Torc. :cert:

:rofl: I can't imagine why on the studs, and never seen a Hy=Torc.....

what gives with that special technique on the studs?? kinda reminds me of TTY head bolts, which is something I don't see why either, my wife's Escort aluminum head uses TTY bolts, but my L98 vette engine just uses ARP bolts/washers....

Any of you nuclear guys know of what is mentioned as Tritium reactors, or other types that maybe not so dependent on cooling water for safety?? I Hear a fusion reactor was done on a experimental basis at some college, but unheard of anything since.....So, what's new??

:waiting:

[Mirroredshades]

Dude, you are being especially coherent today. WTH ?

:D