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Massacure

(7,515 posts) Fri Apr 14, 2017, 09:21 PM Apr 2017

Breazeale Nuclear Reactor Start up, 500kW, 1MW, and Shut Down (ANNOTATED)

I found this video to be pretty cool.

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Breazeale Nuclear Reactor Start up, 500kW, 1MW, and Shut Down (ANNOTATED) (Original Post) Massacure Apr 2017 OP

With all due respect to the narrator, I very much doubt that the bubbles are... NNadir Apr 2017 #1

NNadir

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1. With all due respect to the narrator, I very much doubt that the bubbles are...

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Sat Apr 15, 2017, 12:57 PM

Apr 2017

...hydrogen and oxygen from the radiolysis of water. Radiolysis is a known effect, but the rate is too low to account for those bubbles.

It is far more likely that they are simply steam.

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