RimWorld

RimWorld

Dubs Rimatomics
In depth reactor systems/cooling (maybe more)
So. i was wondering if you could make an emergency control system for the reactor set. I usually run the Type-V reactor.
Well.
Reactors dont have an 'auto-scram' without the equipment and reserve systems to do so.

The reactor systems at Energy NW have an auto dead-bolt reactor protocol if all power is lost, reserve emergency generators kick in, the protocol system will auto lift all control rods and fills the reactor hull with Argon or Nitrogen to kill any possibility of flame or combustion, it doubles as a way to quickly cool the active rods and trip decay heat. As even with emergency generators, itll be difficult to move water to flood the hull of the reactor.

The reactor system at Hanford Power Plant, is no longer in use for main power, its still used in research, nuclear fuel, and testing. it can be reused for emergency power if needed.
The Hanford power plants are some of the oldest and most renewed nuclear reactors in the world. BUT is the most advanced in safety.
The Hanford Power Plant uses an emergency auto-SCRAM system that is much the same way as Energy North West's power plant.
Though, as just about every power plant uses the same SCRAM system, an auto shutdown, and a flood of reserve water into the reactor hull. and you need to pull up the rods manually (if theres no power)
BUT, Hanford has a SCRAM system that uses heat dispersion. In the occurrence of a SCRAM at Hanford's reactor, the reactor is filled with ball barrings. the ball barrings will be used to transfer heat around, off the active rods, like a radiator. Followed by emergency water filling the hull. before, if there was an out of control reactor, the average time till a catastrophic failure is 20 seconds. this method can pull that that 20 seconds into 30min. giving plenty of time to evac, or even pull out any control rods that cant be pulled out if power is out.

--

So. what im asking to see what can be done, is if there is a way to make emergency flooding of a reactor, or even the radiator idea. A way for SCRAM to actually make sense. as if we all remember chernobyl, there was a power failure, followed by a build up of static electricity, and when power was reset it caused a small EMP like effect in the hull, breaking control rod controls. causing a 11 second-till catastrophic meltdown.

SCRAM, though used in some older reactors as a standard shutdown procedure, is no longer the case, this goes for Hanford. Its generally known as the 'kill switch' for reactors. but now-a-days its known as the EMERGENCY kill switch. As the term states: 'slang for leaving quickly and urgently'.
In the first reactors the term was to mean "safety control rod axe man".
Today it means "Safety Control Rods Activation Mechanism" or "Safety Control Rod Actuator Mechanism".

We dont even have 'Safety Control Rods' we have reactor rods and fuel rods.

In russian, their 'SCRAM' is called AZ-5 or "Emergency Protection of the 5th Category"

--

Coolant types:
-Water
-Heavy Water
-Radiator (wont cool completely)
-Ball barring injector (Radiator type, for SCRAM)
-Argon (for SCRAM)
-Nitrogen (for SCRAM)
-Safety Rods (cancels reactors even after control rods are used)
-Isolation cooling (lifts an active fuel rod as a last resort to pull it away from a damaged control rod, to air cool the fuel rod and stop the reaction)
< >
Showing 1-2 of 2 comments
rpayne88 30 Dec, 2019 @ 12:23am 
Chernobyl was actually a safety test. It took, IIRC correctly, 60 seconds for the diesel generators to come online once a start command was sent. During those 60 seconds, the plan was for the inertia in the turbines to drive the main generators until the diesels started up. Essentially, spool one system up as one spooled down.

Of course, they needed to test this, which required starting the reactor and running it up to a given power output. When they couldn't get anywhere near the power output required for the test, they basically threw the operators manual out the window. Every control rod was fully withdrawn, to include the manual only failsafes. They basically primed to melt down.

It then suddenly jumped from a low power setting, to well beyond its design limitations. The reactor was immedietly SCRAMed, but it failed.

The control rods dropped, only to break due to thermal shock. Meanwhile, the water in the reactor began to boil and shot the control rods out of the core. This lead to farther thermal runaway, causing the water to undergo thermolysis, providing a perfect fuel/oxidizer mix inside the reactor and a source of ignition.

This now fuel air bomb blasted the lid clean off the reactor and, given the reactor hall's sheet metal roof, clear out of the building.

This explosion provided enough heat to the graphite moderators to ignite them. Of course, C + 2O2 = CO2. Radioactive CO2. And the blast and fire produced updrafts which drew graphite dust into the atmosphere.

Meanwhile, Soviet leaders decide to sit on their a$$ for three days before announcing they had an incident.

In the U.S., we call this criminal negligence. Chernobyl was easily avoidable if the operators had a single iota of intelligence. They didn't even bother to consult the designer even after they disabled every last safety device on the reactor.
[TSF] Mason 1290 30 Dec, 2019 @ 8:33am 
i agree entirely.

a little more flavor to this mod though would be great! i mean im loving Rimafeller as is.
< >
Showing 1-2 of 2 comments
Per page: 1530 50