Climate Changed
Solving the `Boiling Crisis' Would Boost Nuclear Plants' Power
- Avoiding ‘boiling crisis’ would let reactors run hotter
- Hotter temperatures could boost nuke output up to 20%
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You thought you knew how water boils? Think again.
Turns out that there are gaps in the scientific understanding of this phenomenon. Learning more about how heat is transferred could help safely boost the output from nuclear power plants by as much as 20 percent, according to a paper Friday in the journal Physical Review Letters.