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Reactor type: aqueous homogeneous

This new topic is inspired by a post of Calliban in the Phoenix Water topic:

http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php … 57#p190357

This is why Kbd512 and I, have spent some time discussed aqueous homogeneous reactors.  They are naturally self-stabilising, because boiling in the fuel fluid creates voids, which enable more neutrons to escape without causing fission.  They have excellent load following capabilities.  Open the steam valves on the boiler and boiler pressure drops, resulting in more boiling, which causes temperature to drop, which increases heat transfer through the heat exchanger, which reduces moderator temperature, which increases the rate of fission in the core.  If load drops off, the opposite happens.  So you barely need to use control rods.  So long as fuel and fission product concentrations are controlled, all reactivity control can be achieved by thermal feedback effects that respond to load.  Very efficient in this respect.  On Earth, these reactors fell out of favour because of low thermal efficiency ~25% and corrosion problems.  The corrosion problems were eventually solved.  But the world had moved on by that point.  Thermal efficiency is less of a problem on Mars because we can use the heat.

Thanks to the leadership of SpaceNut and his rapport with Executive Director James Burk, the NewMars forum has established a small foothold in the Internet Cloud.  It is now possible for members of the forum to request permanent storage of information pertinent to a topic.

I am hoping that NewMars members will contribute detailed factual information to support this particular topic, and suggest information that might be stored in permanent storage for future access by readers and members alike.

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Re: Reactor type: aqueous homogeneous

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Aqueous homogeneous reactors (AHR) are a type of nuclear reactor in which soluble nuclear salts (usually uranium sulfate or uranium nitrate) are dissolved ...
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Is It Time to Revisit the Aqueous Homogeneous Reactor?http://large.stanford.edu › courses › tilghman2
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Re: Reactor type: aqueous homogeneous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueous_h … us_reactor
Aqueous homogeneous reactors (AHR) are a type of nuclear reactor in which soluble nuclear salts (usually uranium sulfate or uranium nitrate) are dissolved in water. The fuel is mixed with the coolant and the moderator, thus the name "homogeneous" ("of the same physical state") The water can be either heavy water or ordinary (light) water, both of which need to be very pure.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph241/tilghman2/
External circulation of fuel solution: Purely homogeneous reactors remove heat from the reactor core by circulating the fuel/moderator solution itself through heat exchangers, as opposed to just coolant. This leads to radiation shielding and extra corrosion protection needed on a larger amount of machinery, increasing costs.

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Homogeneous Aqueous Solution Nuclear Reactors for the Production of Mo-99 and other Short Lived Radioistotopes

So closed loop, corrosion issues and since the nuclear fuel is in the exchange ;loop the radioativity must have additional shielding.