What are the cooling requirements for a gas core reactor?

[aquitaine]

If we were able to build a gas core reactor, how much heat would need to be dissapated? I bring this up because traditional solid core reactors require lots of heat to be pumped away (do you know the exact number?) to keep the core for melting, but since a gas core is already much hotter wouldn't the amount of heat needing to be moved away from the reactor be significantly less?

 

[QuantumPion]

The heat removed would have to be the same unless you want your reactor walls to turn to gas too :)

 

[theCandyman]

Yeah, you'll probably be removing heat at the same rate, the only difference is the operating temperature. You'll have a higher flow rate than a water cooled reactor because the specific heat of a gas is much lower.