Are there any practical uses for Lyle Borst's 30,000 KW railroad nuclear reactor, either for its original role of powering a train or for being used as a (comparably) small nuclear generator for another task?
Are there any practical uses for Lyle Borst's 30,000 KW railroad nuclear reactor, either for its original role of powering a train or for being used as a (comparably) small nuclear generator for another task?
Yeah. If you look at how over the top the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) rules regarding things like structural strength of locomotives and rolling stock are I can't begin to imagine how insane their ones for a nuclear train would be.The best way to power a train with nuclear power would be to build a nuclear power station and use it to supply electricity for an electric powered train.
Some sort of portable power source for disaster relief purposes?
Obviously, if you can get it somewhere on a train, you can also get diesel fuel and a generator (or just use the locomotive itself) there for the same purpose, but...
Yeah. If you look at how over the top the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) rules regarding things like structural strength of locomotives and rolling stock are I can't begin to imagine how insane their ones for a nuclear train would be.