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You’ve Got to Do Something with All that Steam

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How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor

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I’m going to explain the ‘Secondary Circuit’—and how you use it to do something useful with the heat that you’re taking from the primary circuit. This chapter includes a fair bit of engineering, but you need to understand where all your steam is going.

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Tucker, C. (2019). You’ve Got to Do Something with All that Steam. In: How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33876-3_10

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