I am doing research to determine some of the advantages or disadvantages of using borated water in reactor coolant. In a typical fission reactor application, borated water is used to control the fission reaction as well as limit neutron radiation exposure. I am trying to determine if the rigors...
Pennpiper,
Once again, thank you for your insight. It is apparent that I am not conveying the correct message. My company is not an engineering design shop (we are a very specialized engineering company), and we are doing a rough order of magnitude estimate/budget for this cooling water system...
We are only in the planning stage of development, hence the ROM estimate. As of right now, it is still to be decided whether this equipment needs to be nuclear grade because the design is entirely different than a typical fission reactor. It is not being built to create electricity (steam...
That is a great start, thank you pennpiper for the quick reply! Does anyone else have something similar which provides a specific price and not an average of several projects. The more data I can pull from, the better.
Working on a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimate for the ITER fusion reactor (www.usiter.org) being built in France. Specifically, we are trying to price the fabrication of the cooling system. The scale of this project is enormous so it is difficult to obtain the values necessary for an...
