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Originally Posted by Wolferz
Can they get the old core out through a hatch?
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Highly doubt it. Usually you have to cut a hole in the vessel to extract the core. The amount of safety precautions that have to be in place for this is staggering and another reason why they usually cut a hole for it. Anyone know how many Mega-watts the core is in this sub? I would guess around no more than 150.
I wonder if the UK recycles their spent cores like the US does
We have a place in the US (I won't disclose where) that is called the ECF - Expended core facility. We ship almost all the old cores to this place to recycle them - remove the still good fuel from the core and reuse it in new cores.
The thing that always killed me about this ECF place is how they got the cores to the place - by rail. The cores are shipping in what looks like huge big-mac containers on a rail car. If only the citizens of every country new what was going on in their country
