For reasonswe will discusslater, it may bedesirable tochargeonereactant to the reactor at the outset and bleed a second reactant in continuously over time.
One of them, Rear Admiral Simon Lister, is in charge of this complex programme, and as he took me round the cramped corridors, past the nuclear reactor and down into the sweaty machine rooms, he acknowledged this was a prototype and there was always going to be some "teething" issues.