Nah, a negative power coefficient reactor wants to be just a little above room temp.
Back in the day the Russians used positive, where it wanted to go critical and had to constantly be held back. Those are crazy dangerous.
I couldn’t find good numbers, but there’s about 0.0018 curies per ton of coal, American produces 512 million a year, which works out to just shy of a million curies a year.
3 mile island was 2.5 million curies total. But because it was a localized event it’s hard to compare directly, it shows how the problems with nuclear isn’t logical. We get radiation from coal working as intended
Nah, a negative power coefficient reactor wants to be just a little above room temp.
Back in the day the Russians used positive, where it wanted to go critical and had to constantly be held back. Those are crazy dangerous.
I couldn’t find good numbers, but there’s about 0.0018 curies per ton of coal, American produces 512 million a year, which works out to just shy of a million curies a year.
3 mile island was 2.5 million curies total. But because it was a localized event it’s hard to compare directly, it shows how the problems with nuclear isn’t logical. We get radiation from coal working as intended