A generation II reactor is a design classification for a nuclear reactor, and refers to the class of commercial reactors built until the end of the 1990s...
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Generation III reactors, or Gen III reactors, are a class of nuclear reactors designed to succeed Generation II reactors, incorporating evolutionary improvements...
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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...
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research reactors, non-commercial power producing reactors) Generation II reactor (most current nuclear power plants, 1965–1996) Generation III reactor (evolutionary...
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South Korea and several other countries. The majority are Generation II reactors; newer Generation III designs such as the AP1000, Hualong One, EPR and APR-1400...
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RBMK (redirect from Light water graphite-moderated reactor)
an early Generation II reactor and the oldest commercial reactor design still in wide operation. Certain aspects of the original RBMK reactor design had...
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plutonium as time goes on. Generation II thermal-neutron reactors (today's most numerous nuclear power stations) can reuse reactor-grade plutonium only to...
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Second-generation wavelet transform, in signal processing Transperth Second Generation A-series train; see Transperth A-series train Generation II reactor,...
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IFR was a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) is its closest surviving fast breeder reactor, a type of Generation IV reactor. The U.S. Department of Energy...
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Chernobyl disaster (redirect from Chernobyl reactor accident)
On 26 April 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With...
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Nuclear power in China (section Generation IV reactors)
design. The CNP series of Generation II reactors started with the CNP-300 pressurized water reactor, was the first reactor design developed domestically...
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IPHWR-220 (category Nuclear power reactor types)
Heavy Water Reactor-220) is an Indian pressurized heavy-water reactor designed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. It is a Generation II reactor developed...
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A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating...
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power generation, from the theoretical design of reactors to, computer modeling and simulation, risk analysis, development and testing of new reactor fuel...
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The CNP Generation II nuclear reactors (and Generation III successor ACP) were a series of nuclear reactors developed by China National Nuclear Corporation...
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VVER (redirect from VVER reactors)
wide variety of reactor designs spanning from generation I reactors to modern generation III+ reactor designs. Power output ranges from 70 to 1300 MWe...
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sulfur–iodine cycle. A proposed development of the HTGR is the Generation IV very-high-temperature reactor (VHTR) which would initially work with temperatures of...
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Russia portal Generation IV reactor BN-Reactor – reactor family from RussiaPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback BN-350 reactor – Deactivated...
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by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH). The S-PRISM represents GEH's Generation IV reactor solution to closing the nuclear fuel cycle and is also part of its...
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The EPR is a Generation III+ pressurised water reactor design. It has been designed and developed mainly by Framatome (part of Areva between 2001 and...
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an improved Generation II gas cooled reactor. In France, the UNGG was replaced by the pressurized water reactor (PWR). Gas-cooled reactor types include:...
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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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submarines. This decision would result in the PWR being the reactor of choice also for power generation, thus having a lasting impact on the civilian electricity...
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The light-water reactor (LWR) is a type of thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator;...
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The N4 reactor type is a generation II pressurized water reactor designed and built by Framatome. The reactor houses 205 fuel assemblies each made out...
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A fast-neutron reactor (FNR) or fast-spectrum reactor or simply a fast reactor is a category of nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is...
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power plant would be constructed in Kostroma, using two RBMKP-2400 generation II reactor cores. Construction began in 1979, with several design changes made...
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Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (redirect from Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II)
are second generation similar to Chernobyl 3 and 4. Each unit has a separate reactor building but the turbine hall is shared between 2 reactors. In 2008...
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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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Thorium-based nuclear power (redirect from Thorium based reactor)
gas-cooled reactors (HTRs) Fast neutron reactors (FNRs) Accelerator driven reactors (ADS) Accelerator-driven subcritical reactor Generation IV reactor India's...
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