niekze

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by niekze 3y ago
It's kind of the same idea, right? The more stuff there is to bounce off of, the faster it will slow down, the smaller the net distance it will travel, the increased chance it will thermalize, and less likely it is to escape. I could b
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by niekze 3y ago
The rods are not completely removed. Control rods ravenously gobble up free neutrons. As they're pulled up, more neutrons get to the uranium. You are correct in that fuel at the bottom is used up sooner. As more fuel is used, the rods
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by niekze 3y ago
The fuel in US Naval nuclear reactors is enriched to a much higher percentage than civilian reactors due to size and longevity considerations. It has to fit the ship and refuels take months/years. A ship undergoing a refuel isn't
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by niekze 3y ago
I gotta be both the reactor operator and the throttleman?!?
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by niekze 3y ago
Former US Navy submarine nuclear reactor operator here. Adjusting the steam output was kind of strange. On a submarine, the steam used to propel the submarine dwarfs all the other steam loads. As a result, there's a throttleman who con
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by niekze 3y ago
If you had 50 invocations every second and your execution time was 2 seconds, would you set it to 100? If that's the case, you would multiply the invocations per second by the process time.
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by niekze 3y ago
"You should set your PC value equal to your peak TPS divided by the execution time. For example, if you have a peak of 50 TPS and your execution time is half a second, the most effective PC value would be 25." This confused me. Wo