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by pfdietz 17 days ago
I will add that if we're talking about abnormal operation, say in a reactor meltdown, uranium dioxide can reach its melting point, 2865 C.

Anyway, it's a promising comparison, since the core of a PWR can reach volumetric power density of ~100 MW/m^3 (and probably higher in naval reactors). Servers can potentially be made very compact.