DMiller
Senior Member
Had H2 in storage at the nuke, most larger power stations do for generator cooling, nuke also used for pressurization of reactor coolant to keep O2 down as would recombine at high heat in there to make more water.
Keep hearing of using nukes to make H2, where we used more than could produce even as the process does produce some yet is isotopic radiologically Hot and had to be recombined in reactive recombiners to make water for discharge and to separate the actively hot gases as Nitrogen, Argon, Helium, ‘Radon Daughters’ so could store those to decay below acceptable levels to discharge.
Scary when start up a recombiner heating heavily saturated H2 atmosphere from the reactor coolant off gas then add O2 SLOWLY making water until the usable H2 is gone.
N6 a isotope of Nitrogen was screaming hot, half life in minutes, would be next to non detectable in a few hours.
Keep hearing of using nukes to make H2, where we used more than could produce even as the process does produce some yet is isotopic radiologically Hot and had to be recombined in reactive recombiners to make water for discharge and to separate the actively hot gases as Nitrogen, Argon, Helium, ‘Radon Daughters’ so could store those to decay below acceptable levels to discharge.
Scary when start up a recombiner heating heavily saturated H2 atmosphere from the reactor coolant off gas then add O2 SLOWLY making water until the usable H2 is gone.
N6 a isotope of Nitrogen was screaming hot, half life in minutes, would be next to non detectable in a few hours.