Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoMicrosoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactorsfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square427fedilinkarrow-up11.17Karrow-down130
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minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-211 months agoyou turn it off. “critical” is the normal operating state of reactor when it’s working. what you want to avoid is supercriticality, which means that power is rising. if it’s delayed supercritical but prompt subcritical, power rises and may or may not stop on its own at some point. when it’s prompt supercritical, you don’t even have time to ask https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-power/reactor-physics/nuclear-fission-chain-reaction/reactor-criticality/
minus-squareRyumast3r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoModern reactor design also pretty much makes runaway reactions nearly impossible, as in, you have to actually try to fuck it up. Even Fukushima didn’t have a runaway reaction, it just lost coolant.
you turn it off.
“critical” is the normal operating state of reactor when it’s working. what you want to avoid is supercriticality, which means that power is rising. if it’s delayed supercritical but prompt subcritical, power rises and may or may not stop on its own at some point. when it’s prompt supercritical, you don’t even have time to ask https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-power/reactor-physics/nuclear-fission-chain-reaction/reactor-criticality/
Modern reactor design also pretty much makes runaway reactions nearly impossible, as in, you have to actually try to fuck it up.
Even Fukushima didn’t have a runaway reaction, it just lost coolant.