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editIt should be incorporated in the text that D2G is a pressurized water reactor. /Esquilo (talk) 08:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
What is D2W?
editThe article claims that D2G reactor was replaced with D2W on California class cruisers. However, the provided reference is very unclear on whether D2W is a type of reactor compartment or type of reactor core: it refers to things such as "S6G with D2W core", which was a reactor compartment used by some submarines.
If D2W is, like D2G, a reactor type, should we have at least a stub page for it?
If D2W is something of a different type than D2G, then what does "replacing D2G with D2W" even mean?
Robryk (talk) 00:22, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
- Annoyingly, this is something where I know the answer but I can’t put it on the page until I find a citation. However, the answer is that the D2G reactor on nuclear cruisers and the S6G reactor for Los Angeles class submarines both use the same fuel core design and were both originally fueled with a D1G-2 core, which was named to match the D1G prototype reactor that the core design comes from. It’s D1G-2 because it’s the second fuel core variant from the D1G. The D2W reactor is a different, higher output reactor which was developed for the cancelled Strike Cruiser project. That reactor wasn’t actually used for anything, but the new fuel core design from it is cross-compatible with D2G and S6G reactors and has been installed in both types when they refuel.
- So an S6G with D2W core is literally that: an S6G model reactor with the fuel core from a D2W model reactor installed in it. The actual D2W reactor was never installed as a replacement in anything, only its fuel core design as produced. DesiArcy (talk) 06:09, 23 September 2024 (UTC)