How To Make A Nuclear Reactor Safe Enough For Children To Operate

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In the 1950's Edward Teller thought that more people needed access to nuclear reactors, so he lead a team to design a reactor that was inherently safe due to the laws of physics, a small reactor that would stop reacting before it could melt down by using a fuel which was intimately mixed with the moderator. The result was the TRIGA reactor, a small research reactor which has been used around the world to perform experiments that require neutron radiation.

Includes footage from Tom Scott's video
'The Nuclear Reactor Run By Students'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLBcp3nJlFQ

A history of the TRIGA reactor
https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/trs482Web-94435407.pdf

Some other papers referenced in this chat:
https://koreascience.kr/article/JAKO201811553399572.pdf
https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-21-26460
https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-18-29623

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https://www.ga.com/triga/

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