The process of switching to a reactor fuel that has little or no bomb use is difficult, costly and time consuming.
The company initially estimated it would switch on the reactor within a week, but later pushed the date to the end of March.
Simultaneous product switching and grade target management is demonstrated on a reactor benchmark application.
Hours earlier, the plant operator switched off a reactor cooling system after discovering rats near critical equipment.
Neither group has decided on a reactor design yet.
On the other hand when the reactor was switched on, the toluene concentration in the reactor box increased rapidly, passing through a maximum in 10 150 min, and then decreasing to a value near zero, leading to the toluene concentration in the 1 m3 room becoming negligible.
Simply switch on a digital thermometer.
A year later, if all goes to plan, Britain will switch on Hinkley Point C – two reactors built at a cost of £16bn by France's state-owned EDF with funding from China.
That's because, after a reactor has been switched on, the levels of iodine-131 reach an equilibrium on a timescale similar to its half life of about 8 days.
