UEO Atlantis DSV-8100; Internal Buildup

[Robert Harrison]

lol, a nuke reactor a?! well... um...

This one
http://www.iop.org/activity/educatio...g_mid_5355.gif

or this one

http://www.inl.gov/featurestories/i/scwr.gif

These are both just diagrams of how they work but it should give you the idea of what they look like so that you could create your own...?!

Great pictures btw very nicely done.

matt

[Edward]

Hi guys, first time poster here.

First I'd like to say (and pardon my language) Goddamn! that's amazingly nice man. The ship itself is beautiful and that internal structural view you've given is awesome. The whole thing reminds me a lot of those sort of... Biological Ships, like the Leviathans in Farscape. Although yours is even nicer I find. Really good job.

And in regards to the Nuclear Reactor I think he means Naval Nuclear Reactor, meaning the kind they keep on large ships like Carriers and Nuclear Submarines. I'm guessing it's for the ship's power reactor that you want this?

Unfortunatly this is all I have (reactors somewhere in the engine room I'm guessing),


And... this one


But I think you'd do better finding some kind of internal view or cut out of a Nuclear Sub, since it would fit what you have going better.


EDIT: hey look at that, Google Images comes to the rescue!

[jjward]

Yes, just to clarify, I do want it for the model's engineering section. lol

Thanks guys. They were helpful.

[Meph]

Give it more than one reactor ha. The large US carriers have three nuclear reactors on board. Even big Submarines like the Russian Typhoon or Oscar(liek the Kursk) class have two reactors.

[jjward]

For the record:

She has 1 Fusion core and three fission reactors.

Does this satisfy you?

[Juvat]

Couldn't you use just fusion cores? That way you don't have to worry about a meltdown or large amounts of radioactive waste. Fusion cores are safer since they can't sustain their own reactions and therefore can't melt down...just shut off fuel flow and it's off. Huge safety feature IMO.

Great progress, btw.

[Edward]

Originally Posted by Juvat

Couldn't you use just fusion cores? That way you don't have to worry about a meltdown or large amounts of radioactive waste. Fusion cores are safer since they can't sustain their own reactions and therefore can't melt down...just shut off fuel flow and it's off. Huge safety feature IMO.

Great progress, btw.

Well actually the question is kind of debatable. Some say that we will one day find some sort of catalyst substance that will allow us to convert almost all the radioactive material from Fission into inert materials and energy. Basically just making the process safer and more efficient.

And on the flip side, unless your using cold fusion you'd need to get that Fusion reaction close to the temp of the sun. And if you do lose containment of that it might... I don't know, make like a mini supernova inside your ship (not sure about that though, I'm sort of guessing).

Depending on how you go about it (since this is sci-fi), both could be quite safe or carry great risks. I was thinking that each engine would hold it's own small reactor, so that if one does blow the ship has only lost a fraction of it's propulsion. While there would be a main reactor that supplies everything else like enviro-control to lights and such throughout the ship.
But that's just my idea.

[Odyssey Slipways]

reminds me more of Deep Angel (i thought maybe that's what it was at first)

[J.Wilde]

I used to work on naval nuclear reactors, but unfortunately all that stuff is classified, so I can't go giving you much in the way of hard info. That said, if you visualize some of the basic layouts other folks have already provided in this thread plus some tips from me, you could produce something I wouldn't be inclined to nit pick.

1. Your reactor plant will have at least two primary heat exchange loops. Taking a look at the basic diagram, we see that hot water/gas from the reactor is piped to a steam generator where secondary coolant is boiled for steam for the turbines. If you go for a gas-cooled reactor, the coolant gas will often pass directly through a turbine to produce useful work. Your reactor will have two to four of these boiler/heat exchangers, with their own piping, coolant pumps, and isolation valves.

2. Your reactor vessel will most likely sit inside a big insulated tank of water. This is so that the water acts as a radiation shield, and also slows down any fast neutrons that leak from the core so that they may be detected by the nuclear instruments to measure reactor power levels. The good news of this is that you only need render the top of the reactor where the control rod drive motors and their associated power, control, and cooling systems will project from the tank.

3. To be extra realistic, all the piping, the valves, the pumps, the boilers, everything that contains the primary coolant will be covered with insulation often half again as thick as the piping itself.

4. It's a submarine, even though it's frickin' huge, so everything will be packed together in as small a volume of space as possible. This means piping runs aren't always straight and neat. Leave just enough room around everything to allow your propulsion techs to get in and do basic maintenance. Any serious work on the reactor plant will be too big a job to do at sea anyway.

[Robert Harrison]

Hey is this from Sea quest? (might be a silly question that but i am in a silly question mood so :P ).

If so did they use a Fusion Reactor?

Or going the speed that we are (and forget that some tech is being held back coz it would cost less and would kill some companies.) Would a more interesting form of power generation be better?! in 10 - 20 years time this form of power generation could be in use.

Magnetic confinement fusion
Magnetic confinement fusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think it is promising and would look cool on your... how did J.Wilde put it... ah yes 'frickin' huge'.... There is a picture of the generator on that page as well...

matt