Nuclear reactor physics is the field of physics that studies and deals with the applied study and engineering applications of chain reaction to induce...
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Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences "China adding finishing touches to world-first thorium nuclear reactor". New Atlas. 20...
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (redirect from Homi Bhabha Nuclear Institute)
KAMINI. Apsara was India's first nuclear reactor built at BARC in 1956 to conduct basic research in nuclear physics. It is 1 MWTh light water cooled and...
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A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions. Nuclear reactors are used at...
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pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with...
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created in a nuclear reactor core during a nuclear meltdown accident. Resembling lava in consistency, it consists of a mixture of nuclear fuel, fission...
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{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Lee, John C. (2020). Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 324, 327–329. ISBN 9781119582328...
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A reactor pressure vessel (RPV) in a nuclear power plant is the pressure vessel containing the nuclear reactor coolant, core shroud, and the reactor core...
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A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of...
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The neutron flux is a scalar quantity used in nuclear physics and nuclear reactor physics. It is the total distance travelled by all free neutrons per...
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natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The conditions under which a natural nuclear reactor...
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A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. These reactors can be fueled with more-commonly available...
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undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War II. These were...
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Generation IV (Gen IV) reactors are nuclear reactor design technologies that are envisioned as successors of generation III reactors. The Generation IV International...
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Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a class of small nuclear fission reactors, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation...
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November 2020[update], India has 23 nuclear reactors in operation in 8 nuclear power plants, with a total installed capacity of 7,380 MW. Nuclear power produced a total...
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A nuclear meltdown (core meltdown, core melt accident, meltdown or partial core melt) is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage...
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February 2008). Fundamentals of Nuclear Reactor Physics (1 ed.). Academic Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-12-370631-7. "U.S. Nuclear Industry Capacity Factors (1971–2010)"...
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Munir Ahmad Khan (category Pakistani nuclear engineers)
احمد خان; 20 May 1926 – 22 April 1999), NI, HI, FPAS, was a Pakistani nuclear reactor physicist who is credited, among others, with being the "father of...
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1954, Obninsk was the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world, i.e. the first nuclear reactor that produced electricity industrially, albeit...
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of all the nuclear fission-based nuclear research reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. Some "research" reactors were built...
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Fusion power (redirect from Nuclear fusion reactor)
(1988). "Basic cross section data for aneutronic reactor". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers,...
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The Nyongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center (녕변원자력연구소) is North Korea's major nuclear facility, operating its first nuclear reactors. It is located...
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A molten-salt reactor (MSR) is a class of nuclear fission reactor in which the primary nuclear reactor coolant and/or the fuel is a mixture of molten salt...
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Neutron moderator (redirect from Moderator (Nuclear Reactor))
"Naval Reactors Physics Handbook: The physics of intermediate spectrum ractors, edited by J.R. Stehn". 1964. DOE Fundamentals Handbook: Nuclear Physics and...
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Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant)...
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Research reactors are nuclear fission-based nuclear reactors that serve primarily as a neutron source. They are also called non-power reactors, in contrast...
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Iodine pit (redirect from Reactor poisoning)
xenon pit, is a temporary disabling of a nuclear reactor due to buildup of short-lived nuclear poisons in the reactor core. The main isotope responsible is...
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A pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR) is a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water (deuterium oxide D2O) as its coolant and neutron moderator. PHWRs...
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is the state of a nuclear reactor when the fission reaction is slowed significantly or halted completely. Different nuclear reactor designs have different...
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