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Around 1000 or so, all bought around 1.50 or so back in April when anons were shilling here kek

Ask picrel makes me more bullish on SALT, although I’m not sure how much sodium these processes actually use. Still doing some digging on future and past nuclear reactor designs.

TIL the principal inventor of the RBMK reactors (Nikolai Dollezhal) was born in the 19th century. Just for a hint as to how archaic the Chernobyl design was. The soviets basically wanted a cost-effective design that as opposed to the much safer heavy water designs, used graphite rods and light water in the power generation process instead. This creates issues since they don’t absorb neutrons as well as their heavy water counterparts, resulting in a thermal feedback loop and high void coefficient. This creates a nightmare for the operators to control these unstable loads at low power, which was largely ignored for years but finally culminated in that disaster. There are currently 12 RBMK reactors still operating in Russia, which have all been retrofitted with better housings for the fuel rods, better trained personnel etc.

I have a follow up on this in a bit, as it is something i discovered about Russia’s current nuclear grid that no one has mentioned here (or anywhere) thus far..