Fusion reactor meltdown

[Avengershows]

What tier would a fusion reactor going critical and exploding be (for durability)?

 

[Roun12]

What tier would a fusion reactor going critical and exploding be (for durability)?

Real life fusion reactor failures wouldn't result in any real explosive meltdown scenario. It would have to be based on whatever calculated yield the fictional explosion would have.

 

[Avengershows]

Real life fusion reactor failures wouldn't result in any real explosive meltdown scenario. It would have to be based on whatever calculated yield the fictional explosion would have.

Can you elaborate more?

 

[Roun12]

Can you elaborate more?

The only way to calculate a fictional fusion reactor explosion would be to just use the normal methods of the size and speed of the explosion. There's no way to approximate a value for fusion reactor explosions because fusion reactors can't really have Chernobyl-style meltdowns.

Fusion reactors require precise magnetic fields or laser pulses to work. If for some reason the reactor's confinement failed, the reaction would simply stop and the plasma in the reactor would expand and cool which would at worst melt the walls of the reactor. There wouldn't really be any explosion to calculate a joule value from.

 

[Avengershows]

The only way to calculate a fictional fusion reactor explosion would be to just use the normal methods of the size and speed of the explosion. There's no way to approximate a value for fusion reactor explosions because fusion reactors can't really have Chernobyl-style meltdowns.

Fusion reactors require precise magnetic fields or laser pulses to work. If for some reason the reactor's confinement failed, the reaction would simply stop and the plasma in the reactor would expand and cool which would at worst melt the walls of the reactor. There wouldn't really be any explosion to calculate a joule value from.

It wasn't a meltdown, it was basically blown up

 

[Roun12]

It wasn't a meltdown, it was basically blown up

If you mean, simply just causing an explosion big enough to blow up a fusion reactor:
Using the ITER as an example, let's simplify and say that its weight of 5000 tons is nothing but pure steel as a high-ball. The violent fragmentation of that much steel would be around 3.598*10^11 joules or 8-B.

This is stupidly oversimplified and you'd really be better of just using what is seen or described of the explosion and then working from there.

 

[Avengershows]

If you mean, simply just causing an explosion big enough to blow up a fusion reactor:
Using the ITER as an example, let's simplify and say that its weight of 5000 tons is nothing but pure steel as a high-ball. The violent fragmentation of that much steel would be around 3.598*10^11 joules or 8-B.

This is stupidly oversimplified and you'd really be better of just using what is seen or described of the explosion and then working from there.

It destroyed the reactor and a massive futuristic factory that produces robots made of tantulum basically.

 

[Roun12]

It destroyed the reactor and a massive futuristic factory that produces robots made of tantulum basically.

Well, then that probably depends on the size of the factory, but it could range from building level to multi city-block level depending on the composition of the building, its size, the speed of the explosion, or what kind of damage (fragmentation, violent fragmentation, pulverization) is done.

 

[Avengershows]

Well, then that probably depends on the size of the factory, but it could range from building level to multi city-block level depending on the composition of the building, its size, the speed of the explosion, or what kind of damage (fragmentation, violent fragmentation, pulverization) is done.

No clue what type of destruction is done but the factory is hella massive and is entirely made of tantalum

 

[Roun12]

No clue what type of destruction is done but the factory is hella massive and is entirely made of tantalum

Well, tantalum's strength properties seem similar to steel besides being over twice as dense so probably approaching the city-block end depending on the size/destruction type.

 

[Avengershows]

Well, tantalum's strength properties seem similar to steel besides being over twice as dense so probably approaching the city-block end depending on the size/destruction type.

We don't know the destruction type sadly. Though we do know that the factory is incredibly massive, I'd say it spans multiple city blocks in legth and another line of city blocks in width. It's also really tall too

 

[Roun12]

We don't know the destruction type sadly. Though we do know that the factory is incredibly massive, I'd say it spans multiple city blocks in legth and another line of city blocks in width. It's also really tall too

Well, something that big made of a material comparable to steel could possibly reach values in the 7-C range.

 

[Avengershows]

Well, something that big made of a material comparable to steel could possibly reach values in the 7-C range.

Prob, tho there's no concrete reference as to how large it is. Also, it was destroyed with the intent of leaving nothing behind, since even if tiny pieces of tech were left behind it'd be not very good

 

[KLOL506]

Do you have an idea of how wide the explosion is? You could use the ground-based explosion formula to gauge an estimate.

 

[Avengershows]

Do you have an idea of how wide the explosion is? You could use the ground-based explosion formula to gauge an estimate.

Nope, there's basically nothing on how large it would've been. Since the feat comes from a game there's barely any context as to what the explosion would've been like or even how large the factory was