4h25m21s09f Xenon Challenge First Nuclear Reactor Experiment also Chernobyl - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-14

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ This turns out to be a big problem for real nuclear reactors. This was one of the first reactors that was ever built this was the Hanford Reactor. They turned it on and everything seemed to be going. And after about a day or two of running it, all of a sudden the power went: peeeeewwwwwww, and dropped like almost to zero. And they left it alone, and after about, you know, 12, 18 hours, all of a sudden: peeeeeewwwwww- it came back up to power again and held there. And they're going, What!? And then pretty soon it goes: peeeeeewwwwwww. And it drops off again. They're going- It makes no se- We're not doing anything! The thing's like, turning on and it's turning off. And turning on, and turning off. Well, what was going on was, the reactor would turn on, and Xenon-135 would begin to build up. And as it built up, it would start eating all those neutrons, right? And then went: peeeewwww. And it would take the reactor back down again. And then after a while it would decay away. Once it decayed away: peeeewwww! The reactor would come back on again! So it was following this up-and-down effect. Just crazy. I mean these guys didn't even know what Xenon-135 was, 'cause this was like one the first nuclear reactors ever built. This actually was a contributing effect to the Chernobyl disaster, was the presence of Xenon-135. 

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