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(Transcribed by TurboScribe. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) So Jason, thank you for doing this for

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us.

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So we just want to get a little

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bit of an explanation of what you have

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in here.

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What is it that we're seeing?

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We're seeing a 3D model of the reactor,

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right?

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But can you walk us through what it

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really is and what it's going to be

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doing in real life?

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Yeah, that's right.

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This is about a 1 7th scale model

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of the Deep Vision Gravity Reactor.

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We call this the reactor canister.

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This will all be one piece, really.

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It's been printed in multiple pieces so that

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we can transport it more easily.

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But it's really pretty simple.

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I mean, all it is is a square

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channel down the center for nuclear fuel.

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And then there's kind of an annular space

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where cold water can flow down and then

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enter the bottom of the reactor core and

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then flow up as the water's being heated

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by the nuclear fuel, which is what we

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have here.

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This is representative of four typical pressurized water

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reactor fuel assemblies, 17 by 17 fuel pins

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in each of the four ones for a

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total of 1,156 fuel pins.

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It's printed as one block, but in reality,

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this will be a bunch of small pins

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so that water can flow through and around

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all of the nuclear fuel rods.

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And so when we go to install the

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reactor, the reactor canister here will be first

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lowered into the borehole.

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And once it's down a certain depth, we

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will then load the fuel.

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We'll see how easily we can insert the

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fuel here with the model.

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Just like that.

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And then we will install what is called

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the transition piece.

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So this is what directs the heated fluid

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flowing up through the fuel assemblies.

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Will flow up through this central pipe, which

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would go up to a long heat exchanger

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that sits above the reactor canister, where we

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would then dump the heat from the reactor

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into the secondary side of that heat exchanger.

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And then that cold fluid would then flow

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back through the annulus, back through down through

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the annulus of the reactor canister, and then

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re-enter the core.

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So it's really quite simple.

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We've modeled a few of the instrumentation that

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will be used for these up here are

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for controlling the concentration of boron in that

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fluid.

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That is what controls the nuclear reaction in

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the core.

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So you want to start the reactor up,

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you would just dilute the water or reduce

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the amount of boron that you have in

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concentration.

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If you want to shut the reactor down,

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you add more boron to that.

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And then we have some representative of thermal

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couples for measuring the temperature of the water

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flowing through the reactor.

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So that's really it.

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It's really pretty simple.

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Not much to it.