• Question: What is the paper you are writing about?

    Asked by anon-202042 to Emily on 6 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Emily Lewis

      Emily Lewis answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      It’s the results of the past few months of simulations I have been running, we are trying to show how molten salt fast reactors could be built and how safe they are.

      I have been measuring criticality- how well the nuclear reaction is going, (it’s a ratio of how many neutrons are produced and then used to start another event, you want it juuust below 1, anything above and your reaction will run away and your reactor maybe explode) for different sizes and materials.

      We also looked at the draining, how fast we could get our liquid fuel out of the core in an emergency situation. If we can prove that we can evacuate fast enough, it wouldn’t overheat the core too much and start to damage things…. this would improve safety 🙂

Comments

  • Photo: Andy

    Andy commented on :

    I’ve got several on the go, but the ones most rapidly approaching completion are measurements of what the aftermath of proton collisions looks like (in detail) when there are heavy quarks present. In particular we’re looking at the production, decay, and radiation of bottom quarks. Our best theory for predicting particle interactions isn’t so hot on b-quarks, but they are really important in searches for new particles and for studying the Higgs boson, so these measurements should help a lot.

  • Photo: Titus

    Titus commented on :

    I am writing papers about
    1) The infection levels of cystic echinococcosis (Hydatid disease) in Western Kenya among in livestock, humans and dogs
    2) The economic loses of Cystic echinococcosis in western Kenya