Timeline for Nuclear powered engines with LFTR technology?
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| Feb 21, 2017 at 19:18 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @AnthonyX: Yes. At 650 K working temperature for the radiators you're looking at around 1 kg/kW for the best advanced designs (liquid droplet); current tube-and-fin designs are an order of magnitude worse. So that's a thousand tons or more right there. Higher temperatures are quite a bit more efficient, but require increasingly difficult engineering, obviously. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 23:43 | comment | added | Anthony X | OK so you can dispense with gigantic solar arrays, but wouldn't a GW-scale reactor needs some pretty massive radiators to get rid of all the waste heat? | |
| May 20, 2014 at 13:45 | vote | accept | Wabbitseason | ||
| May 20, 2014 at 8:50 | history | answered | ThePlanMan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |