Nuclear reactor physics is the field of physics that studies and deals with the applied study and engineering applications of chain reaction to induce...

April 2025[update], India has 25 nuclear reactors in operation in 8 nuclear power plants, with a total installed capacity of 8,880 MW. Nuclear power produced a total of...

A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The idea of a nuclear reactor existing in...

September 29, 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-28. Lee, John C. (2020). Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 324, 327–329. ISBN 9781119582328...

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...

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)"...

A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction. They are used for commercial electricity, marine propulsion...

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...

R1 was the first nuclear reactor of Sweden. It was a research reactor located at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology campus at Valhallavägen in central...

created in a nuclear reactor core during a nuclear meltdown accident. Resembling lava in consistency, it consists of a mixture of nuclear fuel, fission...

Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences "China adding finishing touches to world-first thorium nuclear reactor". New Atlas. 20...

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...

The small modular reactor (SMR) is a class of small nuclear fission reactor, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation...

The Clean and Environmentally Safe Advanced Reactor (CAESAR) is a nuclear reactor concept created by Claudio Filippone, the former Director of the Center...

Reactor"), a research reactor operated by the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, USSR. Electricity was generated for the first time by a nuclear reactor on...

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...

nuclear bomb. As Nilore became restricted site, the research efforts were directed towards working on understanding and producing first the reactor-grade...

The Haigerloch research reactor was a German nuclear research facility. It was built in a rock cellar in Hohenzollerischen Lande, Haigerloch early in 1945...

is the state of a nuclear reactor when the fission reaction is slowed significantly or halted completely. Different nuclear reactor designs have different...

A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. These reactors can be fueled with more-commonly available...

Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located 17 kilometres (11 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The Israeli...

destruction of the reactor, unless it is specifically designed to tolerate the condition. A cent is 1⁄100 of a dollar. In nuclear reactor physics discussions...

to a high temperature in a nuclear reactor and then expands through a rocket nozzle to create thrust. The external nuclear heat source theoretically allows...

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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...

undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War II. These were...

A thermal-neutron reactor is a nuclear reactor that uses slow or thermal neutrons. ("Thermal" does not mean hot in an absolute sense, but means in thermal...

Nuclear graphite is any grade of graphite, usually synthetic graphite, manufactured for use as a moderator or reflector within a nuclear reactor. Graphite...

development to support and advance nuclear technology, particularly CANDU reactor technology. CRL has expertise in physics, metallurgy, chemistry, biology...

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...