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    The CANDU (CANada Deuterium Uranium) is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power. The acronym refers to its deuterium...
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  • The Advanced CANDU reactor (ACR), or ACR-1000, was a proposed Generation III+ nuclear reactor design, developed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)...
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  • Canada. AECL developed the CANDU reactor technology starting in the 1950s, and in October 2011 licensed this technology to Candu Energy. AECL describes its...
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  • Canadian nuclear reactors are a type of pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR) of domestic design, the CANDU reactor. CANDU reactors have been exported...
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  • specializing in the design and supply of nuclear reactors, as well as nuclear reactor products and services. Candu Energy Inc. was created in 2011 when parent...
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  • generating capacity of all current operating reactors. CANDU and IPHWR are the most common type of reactors in the PHWR family. Other designs include the...
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    all reactors need to be shut down for refueling; for example, pebble bed reactors, RBMK reactors, molten-salt reactors, Magnox, AGR and CANDU reactors allow...
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    Scram (redirect from Trip, reactor)
    reactors, a "reactor trip" at pressurized water reactors and "EPIS" at a CANDU reactor. In many cases, a scram is part of the routine shutdown procedure which...
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  • Candu or CANDU may refer to CANDU reactor (CANada Deuterium Uranium), a Canadian pressurized heavy water reactor Advanced CANDU reactor CANDU Owners Group...
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  • the CANDU-derived Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station in Quebec, the Fugen Advanced Test Reactor in Japan, and the never-commissioned CIRENE reactor in...
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    criticality could occur in a CANDU reactor or any other heavy water reactor when ordinary light water is supplied to the reactor as an emergency coolant....
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    development to support and advance nuclear technology, particularly CANDU reactor technology. CRL has expertise in physics, metallurgy, chemistry, biology...
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    heavy water Halden Reactor Pressurized heavy water Boiling light water Organic medium Pressurized heavy-water reactor CANDU reactor IPHWR Han, Yuxuan;...
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  • the Shanghai Electric Group to design, market and build the advanced CANDU reactor. Its ability to use reprocessed uranium will reduce China's stock of...
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  • Demonstration (or NPD) was the first Canadian nuclear power reactor, and the prototype for the CANDU reactor design. Built by Canadian General Electric (now GE...
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    Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station (category Nuclear power stations using CANDU reactors)
    nuclear reactors; Gentilly-1, a 250 MW CANDU-BWR prototype, that was marred by technical problems and shut down in 1977, and Gentilly-2, a 675-MW CANDU-6 reactor...
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    Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using CANDU reactors)
    Romania. It produces around 20% of the country's electricity. It uses CANDU reactor technology from AECL, using heavy water produced at Drobeta-Turnu Severin...
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    heavy water reactors, e.g. CANDU. Reactors moderated with heavy water can use unenriched natural uranium. Carbon, in the form of reactor-grade graphite...
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  • Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) – e.g., GE BWR series. CANDU reactor – Canadian heavy water reactors using natural uranium. Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) –...
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    probably occur in a CANDU rather than a meltdown, such as deformation of the calandria into a non-critical configuration. All CANDU reactors are located within...
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  • available from the United States or the Soviet Union. The Canadian CANDU reactor, using heavy water as a moderator, was designed with the same goal of...
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    Bruce Nuclear Generating Station (category Nuclear power stations using CANDU reactors)
    eight CANDU pressurized heavy-water reactors, until 2016, it was the world's largest fully operational nuclear generating station by total reactor count...
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    PWR reactor design) in power output and physical size, being 20 times larger by volume than contemporary western reactors. Similarly to CANDU reactors and...
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    usable as nuclear fuel in reactors designed specifically to make use of naturally occurring uranium, such as CANDU reactors. By making use of non-enriched...
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    to buy heavy water. In conceptual terms, CVTR is very similar to the CANDU reactor design that was being pursued by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited around...
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    nuclear reactor designs that are currently under development. But as per Mehul Shah, the founder and CEO of Clean Core Thorium Energy, operational CANDU reactors...
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  • about 10% of the electricity comes from 3 operational nuclear reactors: Embalse, a CANDU reactor, and Atucha I and II, two PHWR German designs also known as...
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    Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using CANDU reactors)
    Canada. Phase III Involved construction of two 728 MW (gross) CANDU-6 series of the CANDU reactor design supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. This...
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  • for the CANDU reactor. At the time of its retirement on March 31, 2018, it was the world's oldest operating nuclear reactor. The NRU reactor design was...
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    Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (category Nuclear power stations using CANDU reactors)
    power stations in the world and Canada's third-largest, with eight CANDU reactors. Since 2003, two of these units have been defuelled and deactivated...
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