[LMB] reactor design

[Stewart Dean]

Found the NYTimes article I mentioned...from 1988...more than a few :( years
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3DA1039F936A25752C1A96E948260
It /is/ uranium fueled but with the uranium is in high temperature 
encased pellets instead of fuel rods.  Thorium sounds better tho.

Re the graphite rods for safety shutdown...using these to immediately 
quench and shutdown a reactor is called SCRAMing a reactor...from 
Fermi's first reactor under the Manhattan project under the bleachers at 
the University of Chicago.  The rods were suspended from Manila hemp 
rope and there was a guy with an ax ready to chop them and drop the rods 
on command...the Safety Control Rod Axeman or SCRAM

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