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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:52 PM
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9. Here is a gallery of components, which includes some "blanket modules'
My extensive research (fooling around the site a couple years ago) led me to believe that these "blanket modules" are their idea for neutron absorbtion and heat exchange.

At any rate, they mention a "cooling scheme", and if my freshman thermodynamics was worth anything, any cooling scheme represents a way to transport heat away from the reactor, to somewhere else, which means it could be used to run a generator.

http://www.iter.org/gallery-design.htm

They subcontracted the tritium-supply to this guy:

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