rack power question

Marshall Eubanks tme at multicasttech.com
Tue Mar 25 15:51:51 UTC 2008



On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Brian Raaen wrote:
>
> Russia (or the USSR at that time) used to use liquid graphite to  
> cool their
> nuclear reactors, even thought it was flammable.... of course that  
> was what
> they were using in Chernobyl.
>

The RBMK-1000 used graphite for moderation and water for cooling.

Regards
Marshall

>
> -- 
> Brian Raaen
> Network Engineer
> braaen at zcorum.com
>
> On Tuesday 25 March 2008, you wrote:
>>
>> Dorn Hetzel wrote:
>>> Of course, my chemistry is a little rusty, so I'm not sure about the
>>> prospects for a non-toxic, non-flammable, non-conductive  
>>> substance with
>>> workable fluid flow and heat transfer properties :)
>>
>> Mineral oil?  I'm not sure about the non-flammable part though.   
>> Not all
>> oils burn but I'm not sure if mineral oil is one of them.  It is used
>> for immersion cooling though.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>




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