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9th January

POLO-PLUT BWR, Uses POLO for NEUT generation,, PLUT for fission. The fission is meant to be slow and controlled, and Mercury acts like a moderator with NEUT absorbing properties. The higher the temperature, the higher the MERC level, the less NEUT made.

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Sydneymotor2 10th January

Thanks! I used TTAN as a heat conductor, specifically a realistic one, not using HEAC. Also, i had big sections of PLUT so i just used trial and error and kept separating the PLUT. As for MERC, i was just bored reading Tpt wiki and i found some pretty cool stuff you can do with MERC, unfortunately it requires more heat than i expected for it to expand.4
Oyne31 9th January

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Oyne31 9th January

(For a PLUT reactor, having large amounts of PLUT in big sections can make it more likely for an individual sector to reach self-sustaining criticality, and I would recommend keeping the entirety of the reactor core purely CRMC and sectioning off TTAN from the heat of the core using INSL to make the reactor able to withstand to ~2400C instead of 1600, which is especially helpful given PLUT tends to emit bursts of very high temperatures.)
Oyne31 9th January

Cool use of MERC mechanics. PLUT reactors tend to be hard to control, so I usually either use URAN and a pressure source or sometimes POLO. +1

The Powder Toy

Reactor Vessel V1 by Sydneymotor2

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