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Super critical water reactors are chemical reactors that use supercritical water to decompose or crack other chemicals such as cellulose generally to create syn gas or other low molecular weight product from a high molecular feedstock.
What you are describing is a nucrear reactor that uses super critical water as a working fluid or coolent. It does not react supercritical water and should be properly named for scientific purposes.
71.113.227.225
17:01, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
What about supercritical nuclear reactors as a disadvantage need materials that "do not exist." —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarchTheMonth ( talk • contribs) 04:36, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
In the introduction it says: "The BWR, PWR and the supercritical boiler are all proven technologies."
this is simply not true, especially not for the BWR since the Fukushima accident
Hogdotmac (
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00:28, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
The lead currently says: "The reactor inlet coolant is high density water."
I don't think there's any such thing as "high density water". (Unless you're talking about
heavy water of course.) Water is mostly
incompressible, so it doesn't change its density with pressure. I suspect, what was meant was "high pressure water". Or specifically: Water at a higher pressure than your standard household pressurized-light-water-reactor, and much higher pressure than in a boiling-water-reactor. --
BjKa (
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09:04, 9 September 2016 (UTC)