A single Quark does not last very long compared to the one year 1 megawatt units that did last an entire year. Some clever system of moving the individual Quarks around must be designed and tested for larger heat production plants.
Quark burns very brightly though -- at rates and heats that could melt down most of the steels and some of the ceramics very very quickly.
Once again, a clever replacement system of the little Quark units will be needed.
Each separate QuarkX resembles a cigarette or a pencil in length and thick. They are perhaps square, instead of round, but I have used round symbols below for convenience.
Set up 5 vertical magazines of unconnected QuarkX's coming down the magazine under spring finger retention, being driven one pencil width per staging click -- being driven from the top of each magazine stack (driven separately) dropping free of the spring fingers at the bottom of the reactor after many progressive single width pushes.
Each separate QuarkX resembles a pencil in length and thick. The ones that are driven (or the ones used to collect electricity) will have contact touch caps on the end, sorta like an old style fuse cartridge. Since commonality is nice, they all may be the same exact unit.
They may be square, instead of round, but I have round symbols below for convenience.
Set up 5 vertical magazines of unconnected QuarkX's coming down the magazine under spring finger retention, being driven one pencil width per staging click -- being driven from the top of each magazine stack (driven separately) dropping free of the spring fingers at the bottom of the reactor after many progressive single width pushes.
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Let'em get as hot as they want to since they can't melt down any more. Lots & lots of heavy duty heat, doing it this way a 1 megawatt plant might be quite small, you know. Use of a nuclear heat transfer fluid system instead of direct steam generation will likely be used on larger plants. but auto sized stuff will likely still use direct steam generation to save size and weight.
There will be some waste involved, but Rossi understands that running a reactor to the bitter end takes full time expertise tweaking it and this method does not.
You could "use them up totally" by feeding all the drop free units back through the one of the side Mouse stacks. This would allow each little bit of stuff to get used up as the "use up side stack" is monitored by separate feedback electronics and can have several different "excitement" program stages to maximize the total complete use up of that use up stack.
Plus, you could make you some bigger pencils for a heavier duty plant, you know .....