Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Nuclear Reactor PWR Simulator by University of Manchester

[brohen]

My dyslexia is wierd, I read the title as "Nuclear nuclear reacts to nuclear reactor"

[swokatsamsiyu]

That's hilarious that you're doing this particular simulator. An engineering buddy of mine sent me the link to it about 5 weeks ago with the words; "Here you go, Mr. reactor nerd. Something for you to play with. See if you can run this thing."

After some trial and error, I was actually quite good at running this PWR for someone that has never set foot in a real control room. Gently brought the reactor up to power, and then let it follow the steam demand. Would shim the control rods on occasion if the power output versus demand was too far apart to bring the plant back into balance, and just let it run. It was jolly good fun!
I would love to see you do an RBMK simulator, if only to show the difference between the reactor you worked with, and the big, grumpy RBMK.

[zacharytaylor]

this is really cool! I'd also be happy to see you play the RBMK simulator made by simgenics. It's almost lost media, in terms of the menu screen, and cutscenes, but the heart of it is still playable with a small patch to fix Xenon Poisoning. I could send a vid going over the installation and operation if you want.

[TheHarbourInn]

Can you please make more of this kind of content of testing these things out? I'm really enjoying this and so please do keep it up. Thank you T. Folse Nuclear.

[Alberto-mcyk]

OMG! An original vid. Love tour reacts, but more of this please! 😊

[samuelforsyth]

would love to see someone try and simulate a high temp molten salt reactor, the core has fluid & thermodynamics + nuetronics + chemistry. quite complex

[dopplerfox]

This is a really cool type of video to see! That's a cool game - you should definitely check out that Roblox BWR simulator you had covered before. It's come a long way, and is seriously impressive now. The game is free to play, just be sure to set up a private server (also free and easy).

[cheekyfox]

Uk nuclear is used as base load...so fairly consistent power output. Gas power stations load follow, and hydro is for quick reaction.

[Hamstray]

i think the french do load following of their pwrs to some degree. load following would work better in fast neutron reactors though.

[LauraRenewing]

One of your best and most informative videos to date!

[BruceDuncan]

Nuclear Engineer Reacts to an Entire Country Operating Their PWRs in Load Following Mode (France)

[Oddman]

7:00 Automotive cooling systems work like this too. But it's 13-16 PSI instead of the ungodly pressure the reactor runs at.

EDIT: I now want a game about secondary plant cleanup.

[cheeseparis]

Thanks for this video! TIL the coolant fluid has boric acid in it and captures ions, helping the regulation process

[ShadowRaptor]

Could you also check out Realistic Pressurised water reactor made by the same devs of Rbwr

[ShaLun]

Please try the BWR simulator from ACME Nuclear Services.

[highvolt]

Could you please try more reactors from roblox like chernobyl unit 3 or the new version of realistic boiling water reactor

[Sir_Uncle_Ned]

Lots of people don’t even think about how electricity is generated, all they know is a wire and a meter get the angry pixies to whatever they are needed for and you get a bill every so often for how many angry pixies you used.

I absolutely love breakdowns and educational stuff like this.

[patrickbliss]

7:31 So being in that is like standing on the surface of Venus.

[network_king]

There was a really cool one with a lot more controls I tried a few years ago, going off pictures now from what i remember it is called nuclear power plant simulator online. I am seeing some images of it and a few youtube videos. I liked this one because had a lot more to work with. It also had some kind of a thing where the fuel weakened some everyday and you had to adjust for this too. Was a really cool setup kind of a shame it is MIA now. Not a game for your normal person probably but I liked it and if you understand the basic operations of a plant and some playing around you can adjust one thing then maybe adjust what that changed down stream.

I would be curious if you can find some video of this or even just take a look at an image and see what you think of the setup, etc. Would have been nice this thing was some open source project as i'm suspecting whoever made it moved on, etc which is a shame it had to go away.

[jboneau]

really cool. i'm having flashbacks of my time as a navy nuke.