That sucks I only get mixed up with numbers Sometimes I get mixed up with red and blue I know the color but I will say the Blue for red and red for blue
That's hilarious that you're doing this particular simulator. An engineering buddy of mine sent me the link to it about 5 weeks ago with the words; "Here you go, Mr. reactor nerd. Something for you to play with. See if you can run this thing." After some trial and error, I was actually quite good at running this PWR for someone that has never set foot in a real control room. Gently brought the reactor up to power, and then let it follow the steam demand. Would shim the control rods on occasion if the power output versus demand was too far apart to bring the plant back into balance, and just let it run. It was jolly good fun! I would love to see you do an RBMK simulator, if only to show the difference between the reactor you worked with, and the big, grumpy RBMK.
this is really cool! I'd also be happy to see you play the RBMK simulator made by simgenics. It's almost lost media, in terms of the menu screen, and cutscenes, but the heart of it is still playable with a small patch to fix Xenon Poisoning. I could send a vid going over the installation and operation if you want.
Can you please make more of this kind of content of testing these things out? I'm really enjoying this and so please do keep it up. Thank you T. Folse Nuclear.
would love to see someone try and simulate a high temp molten salt reactor, the core has fluid & thermodynamics + nuetronics + chemistry. quite complex
Yup those would be very different essentially passive convection would be the primary flow. The secondary would be another molten eutectic salt mixture. Finally it would make extremely hot steam. The secondary loop could do double duty as an isotope generator as well as thermal transfer. The pipes would be made of a metal that passes neutrons but will passivate by both oxygen and fluorine.❤
@@christopherleubner6633 if you go fast spectrum and Cl salt you can run 850c, enough for a super critical co2 turbine, you could have a reactor completely void of water, yay explosions impossible
This is a really cool type of video to see! That's a cool game - you should definitely check out that Roblox BWR simulator you had covered before. It's come a long way, and is seriously impressive now. The game is free to play, just be sure to set up a private server (also free and easy).
Yes, they do. They use so called "grey control rods" for that. These will only partially absorb neutrons, instead of fully absorbing them. That way they can vary reactor power without actually changing reactor power to avoid the Xenon peaks/valleys.
@@Hamstray In a PWR you can control your burnup with Boron in the primary cooling circuit to a certain degree. But perhaps Mr. Folse can enlighten us a bit more on the details?
This is nifty. Have you seen Kyle Hill visit the _glass model_ of a working reactor? That seems like the kind of thing that honestly should be built everywhere. I wish I'd seen something like that in a museum when I was in school.
7:00 Automotive cooling systems work like this too. But it's 13-16 PSI instead of the ungodly pressure the reactor runs at. EDIT: I now want a game about secondary plant cleanup.
Lots of people don’t even think about how electricity is generated, all they know is a wire and a meter get the angry pixies to whatever they are needed for and you get a bill every so often for how many angry pixies you used. I absolutely love breakdowns and educational stuff like this.
There was a really cool one with a lot more controls I tried a few years ago, going off pictures now from what i remember it is called nuclear power plant simulator online. I am seeing some images of it and a few youtube videos. I liked this one because had a lot more to work with. It also had some kind of a thing where the fuel weakened some everyday and you had to adjust for this too. Was a really cool setup kind of a shame it is MIA now. Not a game for your normal person probably but I liked it and if you understand the basic operations of a plant and some playing around you can adjust one thing then maybe adjust what that changed down stream. I would be curious if you can find some video of this or even just take a look at an image and see what you think of the setup, etc. Would have been nice this thing was some open source project as i'm suspecting whoever made it moved on, etc which is a shame it had to go away.
Now you should play realistic boiling water reactor (lets see how much you know about BWRs) in roblox. Its fairly realistic other than that you can turn it on in 30 minutes.
That also makes me wonder about the few ships with nukes. Maybe they would use alternate propulsion for variable loads, and the spicy rocks for cruising? Or just deal with the problems around load following?
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Just my guess, by maybe cable and spool attached to the top of the rods. I'm sure it probably depends on the tractor though, and I'd love to see Tyler correct me below.
I know this might sound like a dumb question, but my goal is to learn. If the thermal efficiency comes from the temperature difference between the hot reservoir and the cold reservoir, why not put the cold water in a large tank or silo and supercool it to around -40? That will give you the maximum thermal efficiency year round
I'm gonna venture a guess that the necessary energy to cool the water a large degree below what they're already using would negate any thermal benefits from a larger temperature differential, and probably cause problems with the heat exchangers between the primary loop and secondary loop from flash boiling cavitations?
You do realise that EBR-1, a Fast breeder with NaK as a coolant was designed in, and operated as early as the 50's? But yeah, I like these a lot. EBR-II was a marvel of technology that they couldn't even get to meltdown despite their best efforts trying to cause just that, during two landmark tests. Both times the reactor politely declined.
EBR II proved solid fuel breeders are not practical or economic. molten salt seems the obvious best option on the table. regulators are apprehensive for proliferation reasons but thats kinda foolish, it would be easier to enrich U235 then seperate out U233 or Pu239 from fission products with regulators watching..@@swokatsamsiyu3590
A gator stole my mouse lure in Eastern NC. It was a fairly little guy; like 3.5 - 4ft long, but I think it probably would have dislocated my shoulder, if the line hadn't broken instead. Then it spit my lure out, and sat right next to it staring at me. I know it was thinking "Come on, I know you want it back. Come in and get it."
My dyslexia is wierd, I read the title as "Nuclear nuclear reacts to nuclear reactor"
I read Nuclear reactor reacts to nuclear reactor
I read
I read nuclear engineer reacts to pwr reactor p*rn engineer
I code too much these las days and literally heard for loop instead of four loop reactor.
That sucks I only get mixed up with numbers Sometimes I get mixed up with red and blue I know the color but I will say the Blue for red and red for blue
That's hilarious that you're doing this particular simulator. An engineering buddy of mine sent me the link to it about 5 weeks ago with the words; "Here you go, Mr. reactor nerd. Something for you to play with. See if you can run this thing."
After some trial and error, I was actually quite good at running this PWR for someone that has never set foot in a real control room. Gently brought the reactor up to power, and then let it follow the steam demand. Would shim the control rods on occasion if the power output versus demand was too far apart to bring the plant back into balance, and just let it run. It was jolly good fun!
I would love to see you do an RBMK simulator, if only to show the difference between the reactor you worked with, and the big, grumpy RBMK.
this is really cool! I'd also be happy to see you play the RBMK simulator made by simgenics. It's almost lost media, in terms of the menu screen, and cutscenes, but the heart of it is still playable with a small patch to fix Xenon Poisoning. I could send a vid going over the installation and operation if you want.
I think you need a VM running Win-98 for that. Or at least, that's what I remember. Never were able to get this simulator, unfortunately.
@@swokatsamsiyu3590 i found one that runs pretty well on windows 10.
OMG! An original vid. Love tour reacts, but more of this please! 😊
Can you please make more of this kind of content of testing these things out? I'm really enjoying this and so please do keep it up. Thank you T. Folse Nuclear.
would love to see someone try and simulate a high temp molten salt reactor, the core has fluid & thermodynamics + nuetronics + chemistry. quite complex
Yup those would be very different essentially passive convection would be the primary flow. The secondary would be another molten eutectic salt mixture. Finally it would make extremely hot steam. The secondary loop could do double duty as an isotope generator as well as thermal transfer. The pipes would be made of a metal that passes neutrons but will passivate by both oxygen and fluorine.❤
@@christopherleubner6633 if you go fast spectrum and Cl salt you can run 850c, enough for a super critical co2 turbine, you could have a reactor completely void of water, yay explosions impossible
One of your best and most informative videos to date!
Nuclear Engineer Reacts to an Entire Country Operating Their PWRs in Load Following Mode (France)
This is a really cool type of video to see! That's a cool game - you should definitely check out that Roblox BWR simulator you had covered before. It's come a long way, and is seriously impressive now. The game is free to play, just be sure to set up a private server (also free and easy).
i think the french do load following of their pwrs to some degree. load following would work better in fast neutron reactors though.
Yes, they do. They use so called "grey control rods" for that. These will only partially absorb neutrons, instead of fully absorbing them. That way they can vary reactor power without actually changing reactor power to avoid the Xenon peaks/valleys.
right, simply just raising all of the control rods variably seems like it's going to result in some uneven burnup.
@@Hamstray
In a PWR you can control your burnup with Boron in the primary cooling circuit to a certain degree. But perhaps Mr. Folse can enlighten us a bit more on the details?
Uk nuclear is used as base load...so fairly consistent power output. Gas power stations load follow, and hydro is for quick reaction.
This is nifty.
Have you seen Kyle Hill visit the _glass model_ of a working reactor?
That seems like the kind of thing that honestly should be built everywhere. I wish I'd seen something like that in a museum when I was in school.
7:00 Automotive cooling systems work like this too. But it's 13-16 PSI instead of the ungodly pressure the reactor runs at.
EDIT: I now want a game about secondary plant cleanup.
7:31 So being in that is like standing on the surface of Venus.
Thanks for this video! TIL the coolant fluid has boric acid in it and captures ions, helping the regulation process
Lots of people don’t even think about how electricity is generated, all they know is a wire and a meter get the angry pixies to whatever they are needed for and you get a bill every so often for how many angry pixies you used.
I absolutely love breakdowns and educational stuff like this.
Could you also check out Realistic Pressurised water reactor made by the same devs of Rbwr
Could you please try more reactors from roblox like chernobyl unit 3 or the new version of realistic boiling water reactor
Please try the BWR simulator from ACME Nuclear Services.
There was a really cool one with a lot more controls I tried a few years ago, going off pictures now from what i remember it is called nuclear power plant simulator online. I am seeing some images of it and a few youtube videos. I liked this one because had a lot more to work with. It also had some kind of a thing where the fuel weakened some everyday and you had to adjust for this too. Was a really cool setup kind of a shame it is MIA now. Not a game for your normal person probably but I liked it and if you understand the basic operations of a plant and some playing around you can adjust one thing then maybe adjust what that changed down stream.
I would be curious if you can find some video of this or even just take a look at an image and see what you think of the setup, etc. Would have been nice this thing was some open source project as i'm suspecting whoever made it moved on, etc which is a shame it had to go away.
Now you should play realistic boiling water reactor (lets see how much you know about BWRs) in roblox. Its fairly realistic other than that you can turn it on in 30 minutes.
Perhaps also Realistic Pressurised water reactor
@@ShadowRaptor42 Yes, Perhaps.
he did watch it
@@nopenope7510 Yes, but here i suggested playing it.
Today I learned nuke boilers aren't designed to have any kind of turn down ratio at all, apparently. Thanks!
That also makes me wonder about the few ships with nukes. Maybe they would use alternate propulsion for variable loads, and the spicy rocks for cruising? Or just deal with the problems around load following?
really cool. i'm having flashbacks of my time as a navy nuke.
Pokemon uranium reaction or gameplay
This was great! Id like to see more videos like this.
Good fun, thanks for sharing!
SCRAM the damn thing! (uttered in some movie).
Please do more videos about this simulator!
Hi Tyler, love your content
Could you please give your insights on Sabine Hossenfelder video about nuclear energy costs? Thanks! Keep doing the good work
Have you ever looked in to the helion trenta machine and the coming Polaris model ??
Your plant did not have check valves to stop the backward flow of water? ty for the video
I wish they would post this like a game (Said before the video started)
When you say decade of experience it sounds cooler than 10 years
i wonder how fast you could run a monte carlo simulation for a reactor on modern gpus.
currently a physics undergraduate student at UoM
how are control rods actuated? Rack and pinion? Linear Piston? Rotary?
With a very steady hand and nerves of steel.
Just my guess, by maybe cable and spool attached to the top of the rods. I'm sure it probably depends on the tractor though, and I'd love to see Tyler correct me below.
The control rods are generally operated with hydraulic actuators. The shutdown scram rods are activated by passive gravity and pneumatic assistance.❤
@@christopherleubner6633 thank you...
@@christopherleubner6633can rods get stuck?
Indeed
Wich is more easy to run and controll? PWR or a BWR?
probably BWR with the less loops but it’s mostly similar
Those types of games with the 3 dials are not very fun. Try Chernobyl The Legacy Continues. It's ancient, but it's a proper simulation.
I know this might sound like a dumb question, but my goal is to learn.
If the thermal efficiency comes from the temperature difference between the hot reservoir and the cold reservoir, why not put the cold water in a large tank or silo and supercool it to around -40? That will give you the maximum thermal efficiency year round
I'm gonna venture a guess that the necessary energy to cool the water a large degree below what they're already using would negate any thermal benefits from a larger temperature differential, and probably cause problems with the heat exchangers between the primary loop and secondary loop from flash boiling cavitations?
Amazing video!
Neat way of shaking things up a little, next time try the game 'subnautica',
@3:31 you better look again ,that is the temperature of the core not the rods
The thumbnail looks like you’re doing a trump impression lol
eew water primary loop, get salt or even NaK.
try dipping your toes in new designs not 60's relics..
You do realise that EBR-1, a Fast breeder with NaK as a coolant was designed in, and operated as early as the 50's? But yeah, I like these a lot. EBR-II was a marvel of technology that they couldn't even get to meltdown despite their best efforts trying to cause just that, during two landmark tests. Both times the reactor politely declined.
EBR II proved solid fuel breeders are not practical or economic.
molten salt seems the obvious best option on the table.
regulators are apprehensive for proliferation reasons but thats kinda foolish, it would be easier to enrich U235 then seperate out U233 or Pu239 from fission products with regulators watching..@@swokatsamsiyu3590
Nak is better than water but salt is safest and highest temp capible (not counting gas, its weak) @@swokatsamsiyu3590
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Please chech out the mobile game "Nuclear inc. 2" is is kind of like this game but more like a game.
Gaming channel soon? lol.
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Nice
A gator stole my mouse lure in Eastern NC. It was a fairly little guy; like 3.5 - 4ft long, but I think it probably would have dislocated my shoulder, if the line hadn't broken instead. Then it spit my lure out, and sat right next to it staring at me.
I know it was thinking "Come on, I know you want it back. Come in and get it."
god i love nerd stuff
Don’t play on mobile, it will barely work
Ngl, I wanted the reactor to meltdown...
Check out the "Nucleares" game.
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yay im here early
First!