Sunday, January 9, 2022

Brayton

With a hat-tip to ToughSf from 2016, here is where KAIST is at 2020 with their supercritical-Carbon-Dioxide nuclear reactor. The coolant cycle which the RMBK of unblessed memory used was the Rankine, using water. The thorium reactor uses liquid salt. The Koreans' CO2 process is the Brayton.

I like it for planets where water or even hydrogen is scarce, and carbon abundant. (I think our dry Moon might, also, be carbon-poor.) Mars of course, and the inner asteroids. Maybe Venus' clouds and low orbit.

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