Why do people use TUNG instead of TTAN
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i am quite confused as to why people build reactors and things of the such with titanium when tungsten can withstand an awful lot more heat, i know it says tungsten is brittle in the description but i dont know what that means, can anyone help?
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It means TUNG breaks into BRMT(TUNG) if the pressure changes a lot in a short amount of time; it can withstand high pressure or negative pressure as long as it got there slowly, but pressure inside reactors can't change slowly.
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The main reason is that almost all reactors create strong positive (in rare cases negative) pressure, which can destroy structures outside the reactor core. The main feature of TTAN is that it completely isolates the pressure, protecting the rest of the core from the reactor core and increasing the efficiency of the reactor itself.
The melting temperature is practically irrelevant, since the reactor core almost always consists of elements that are resistant to any high temperatures (usually INSL or HEAC) and is completely isolated from things that can melt by a layer of INSL or other insulators.
