RE: " Candu revamp aimed at boosted sales... to potential buyers in E urope and the U.S. "

[Jack_Earley@RL.GOV]

Haven't operated any Candus, but on Western reactors, and now probably all,

when you have a loss of coolant, you inject "cold" water into the core to

make it up, initially increasing the density of the moderator, therefore

increasing the thermal neutron population and thermal fissions.



Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer





-----Original Message-----

From: Michael McNaughton [mailto:mcnaught@LANL.GOV]

Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:56 AM

To: Franta, Jaroslav; Radsafe (E-mail)

Subject: Re: " Candu revamp aimed at boosted sales... to potential

buyers in E urope and the U.S. "





At 02:28 PM 02/12/2002 -0500, Franta, Jaroslav wrote:

>Losing the cooling water in the current Candu actually speeds up the 

>nuclear fission



Could someone please briefly explain why?



mike



Mike McNaughton

Los Alamos National Lab.

email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov

phone: 505-667-6130



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