Arian
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Usually in light water reactors, H2O is both the coolant and the moderator.My concern is if it is another heavy water design, it will end up as another concrete mold. They might as well try to make it light water, if they intend to go along with jcpoa. I even saw videos of them placing the lid and upper biological shield over the pit so I can assume that there is a calandria in the works just what type of moderator it will be using is the question.
Salehi is right that the resolution passed by the parliament has not allocated funds to the project. Neither has it determined where the funds should come from. That's indeed a flaw. I suppose that the reconstruction of the calandria will not be a hard process if they have the materials necessary for it. They already have the designs and they have implemented those designs once. So, reconstructing it for a second time should not be very hard. Switching to a light water reactor at this stage, when the reactor is almost finished, will be expensive and time consuming I suppose.