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American researchers achieve nuclear reactor breakthrough

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By scooby

 

Hello!

Any scientist in this blog, please explain to us why is this considered a breakthrough?

Much obliged.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/american-researchers-achieve-nuclear-reactor-103015064.html

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Anonymous said…
These are better references, from Argonne's web site and the original journal article:

https://www.anl.gov/article/when-its-hotter-than-hot-scientists-know-how-nuclear-fuel-behaves-thanks-to-new-research-from

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-024-01883-3
10/19/2024 6:34 AM
Anonymous said…
I'm not sure it is a breakthrough. It would depend on your definition of "breakthrough". It also doesn't seem to be a claim made by the authors of the work.
10/19/2024 9:06 AM
Anonymous said…
It is a materials discovery. That is long way to go from there to nuclear energy. It is nice but the headline is hype. I would figure by now that after 5-10 years of hype headlines, in science and there has been a lot in the last 10 years people would figure out just to ignore this stuff.
10/20/2024 11:19 AM
Anonymous said…
It is not a breakthrough. The people at Karlsruhe were doing experiments with other techniques on UO2 after Three Mile Island. What I want to know is at what temperature reactor fuel becomes liquid. We ALL thought that would be when UO2 melts at around 3138K. Three Mile Island showed us otherwise. UO2 dissolves into liquid metals when the metal melts, around 2000k for zirconium. Think salt and water. Salt melts at a much higher temperature than it dissolves into water.
11/03/2024 2:46 PM
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