Could a tank or land vehicle be nuclear powered? - Physics Forums According to Belarusian nuclear scientists, the now-restructured Belarusian Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering (INPE) designed a mobile nuclear power reactor with a 700 kW capacity (according to Yermashkevich, 630 kW) and created a working model, called Pamir [3,4] This reactor was designed for military purposes and for territories, such as
Why do some nuclear power plants have smoke stacks? - Physics Forums What kind and how much radiation is produced by a nuclear power plant? An operating nuclear power plant produces very small amounts of radioactive gases and liquids, as well as small amounts of direct radiation If you lived within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, you would receive an average radiation dose of about 0 01 millirem per year
Whats the Control System Tank in RBMK - Physics Forums Yet Control System Tank is mentioned: There's a fire in the turbine hall The turbine hall The control system tank Hydrogen You and Toptunov, you morons blew the tank! - No, that's not - This is an emergency Everyone stay calm Then later The tank, it's big enough This kind of explosion, the control tank on 71, it's 100 cubic meters One
Ford Nucleon -- Fission Powered Car Calculation - Physics Forums 1 In 1958, the Ford Nucleon was launched, a car powered by nuclear energy It had a small reactor onboard Assume the car had a mass of 1100 kg and that the reaction used to release energy in the reactor was the following: U-235 → U-236 → Sr-95 + Xe-139 + 2n How many grams of uranium-235 are needed for the car to accelerate from 0 km h to
Nuclear-Electric SSTO Vehicle: Best Propulsion Mechanism? - Physics Forums I've been fascinated by the idea of using a nuclear reactor (either pebble-bed or particle-bed)as a powerplant for an aerospace vehicle, but of course there is the problem of coupling the thermal energy to the propellant flow by direct contact without having bits of radioactive debris from the reactor coming out in the exhaust
Videos of exploding oxygen tanks - Physics Forums It needs fuel and heat to burn When an O2 tank ruptures, it is due to a mechanical containment failure (tank out of Hydro and corroded or something), or due to a mechanical shock at a vulnerable point (like the valve getting hit as a tall tank falls over If the pressurized tank is sitting in a fire for some reason, it can overpressure and
Why cant any missile carry a nuclear warhead? - Physics Forums I think part of the answer is whether a missle of a given level of engineering can carry a nuclear warhead of comparable engineering level The US army had nuclear artillery rounds but that required exponentially greater refinement of the fissile material A WW2 German V1 buzz bomber or modern equivalent cruise missile can carry one
Did Chernobyl divers prevent a multi megaton explosion? - Physics Forums A nuclear reactor, even when severely damaged, is not a nuclear weapon and will not explode with anything close to this kind of energy If for no other reason than the fact that the fuel will blow itself apart into tiny fragments before enough reactions have occurred to generate a multi-megaton explosion
How much nuclear fuel is in a nuclear sub? - Physics Forums Commercial nuclear power plants are 30-40% thermodynamic efficiency in converting heat to electricity No nuclear reactor or bomb of any kind can be greater than ~97 4% efficient at converting fission energy to heat because ~2 6% of the fission energy is lost to neutrinos