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I have yet to visit this misterious universe you describe.
The eVinci reactor has an exceptionally low burn-up rate: about 4 GWd/ton, despite using a much more enriched fuel,at 19.75% ([2], but note that this is just an estimate, Westinghouse did not disclose the actual burnup). Why? That's the price you have to pay to have a micro-reactor. The square-cube law says that for such a reactor the surface of the core is very high compared to its volume, so the neutron economy is extremely poor. The only way to make it work is to use highly enriched uranium. Uranium enriched to more than 20% is considered weapons grade, so commercial reactors need to use fuel below that limit, and 19.75 is basically as high as you can go.
TRISO fuel is actually a miracle of science. It addresses many problems of the current generation reactor fuels. Fission results in transmutation. By the very nature of the fission process, you end up with fission products in burned fuel. Some of these products are gases (like Xeon) and they create pressure, and when you have hundreds of thousands of fuel elements some will burst, resulting in fission product discharge in the cooling water. Nasty stuff. The fuel in TRISO is encapsulated in some poppy-seed-sized granules, and it can withstand immense pressures, so this bursting scenario just does not happen. In addition to that, they can withstand immense temperatures as well, and they are surrounded by graphite that has an exceptional heat conductivity, and is also a very good moderator. From the point of view of reactivity control, graphite is actually the best moderator out there, ahead of hydrogen, deuterium and beryllium.
> is difficult to re-process
That's not a problem. You just don't reprocess it.
> it has quite low utilization of enriched uranium
This reactor will have low utilization, as discussed, but not because of the TRISO fuel.
>> is difficult to re-process
> That's not a problem. You just don't reprocess it.
There's not enough uranium in the world to last us more then a few decades if we leave 60-80 percent of it unreacted in spent fuel.
These things together mean it has quite low utilization of enriched uranium.
1) General relativity is just a model.
2) The force that was observed as gravity can be modeled as a a distortion in space-time.
3) Thus (circular logic incoming), gravity is not actually a force, it's just a distortion in space-time, and that why it looks like a force.
This is just begging the question. I could say the exact same thing about any of the other forces between particles, just instead of using the permanent[0], I'd use the determinant[1] for fermions or the immanant[2] for anyons.
I remember in my electrodynamics class applying relativity to Coulomb's law, and seeing the magnetic force just pop out in the Taylor expansion (and I just learned the Feynman lectures does this too: II_13-6[3]). So what do physicists mean when they say gravity is special, or general relativity doesn't play well with quantum dynamics?
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_(mathematics)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinant
1) Inertial mass and gravitational mass are exactly equal without an explanation why
or
2) The acceleration is just an effect of a curvature of space.
Imagine two bodies thrown exactly Northward on a sphere. Although their paths are parallel they would approach each other, as if there was an acceleration. This acceleration would be the same whatever their mass is.
An engineer in the US reviewing industrial measurements logged in a plant in Asia from a variety of sources is definitely going to encounter lots of events recorded in local time. It would be maddening for that engineer to have to review and resolve events from different time coordinates, especially if they are doing the review months or years later. It's best to accept that reality and adopt local time as the standard. Then you must record the TZ offset per UTC in any new system you create.