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Fancy building your own power supply in your backyard?

Got a few spare lumps of Uranium?

But nervous of the Chernobyl/6 MIle Island effect?

Download a set of plans for a MSR atomic reactor from here.

https://github.com/transatomic/reactor

Please post pics of the finished item... 🙂


 
Posted : 17/06/2019 10:58 pm
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Well, that's you on an NSA watchlist!


 
Posted : 17/06/2019 11:19 pm
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6 Mile Island! That's twice as bad!


 
Posted : 17/06/2019 11:26 pm
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6 Mile Island! That’s twice as bad!

LOL


 
Posted : 18/06/2019 6:08 am
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they mostly look like schematics not blueprints :/


 
Posted : 18/06/2019 7:12 am
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Klunk

they mostly look like schematics not blueprints :/

I think the instructions are aimed at the experienced home atomic scientist, eg you know that if you store all your reactor material together, all the little protoniums and neuters can leak out very quickly, so it's best to keep them in a leakproof container. I'm going to get a 44 gallon drum to keep mine in.

It's just like any DIY job, sometimes you have to bodge a little when the instructions aren't clear.

After all, what could go wrong? 🙂


 
Posted : 18/06/2019 7:32 am
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Just try not to do what happened at Idaho Falls. The impaling and pinning to the ceiling bit sounds rather gruesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1


 
Posted : 18/06/2019 7:53 am
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mick_r

Just try not to do what happened at Idaho Falls...

Och, you're scare mongering. Take a look at its safe operating time from when it opened.

It ran for 75,686,400 seconds, and for only 4 of those seconds was it explosive, so it was only 0.00000000053% dangerous.

Should be one in every home... 🙂


 
Posted : 18/06/2019 10:58 am
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^ That was a bad day at the office.


 
Posted : 18/06/2019 11:45 am
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6 Mile Island! That’s twice as bad!

It's even worse in kilometres.


 
Posted : 18/06/2019 12:11 pm