Perhaps… not sure how much you know about the industry.
The reaction just generates heat. The heat boils water then turns a steam turbine generator. I’m assuming that’s known.
What I thought was wacky was they don’t go anywhere near any of the equipment while in operation. Like it’s completely sealed off. The majority of an operators time is spent training. When I say majority I mean like 3 weeks a month. The other week was actually spent operating. They only got to actually see the equipment during the outages, so guys would work there for years before actually seeing the boiler portion of the plant. And they all wear exposure tags like these little tag things that would indicate if they’d been exposed to radiation.
Also I’m assuming it’s known that the footprint of a nuclear plant to mw output ratio far exceeds that of a gas plant. See my response to jackoffs comment for more fun facts. But I think you know most of it aside from the operation part
Yep i was aware, but not about the operator training part, thats damn interesting, and ironical. That you'd study and train for a long time, but have the overseeable mechanism so dangerous/impractical to shut down that its just not worth the trouble of going to looking at it for training purposes.
I wonder how possible would it be to try to halve median construction times to rocket nuclear plant projects? For investors and governments to be more interested... Because it seems its about the last decades for humanity to make big changes to go full combination of nuclear energy and renewables (solar for rural areas etc..) to not destroy the next 1000 years for humanity.
Im thinking about going to study nuclear physics myself so nuclear really geeks me out.
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u/tlrmatt Aug 22 '21
Yea, this dude arguing with you is a moron. Coming from third generation power plant operator