A subcritical reactor is a nuclear fission reactor concept that produces fission without achieving criticality. Instead of sustaining a chain reaction...

accelerator-driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) is a nuclear reactor design formed by coupling a substantially subcritical nuclear reactor core with a high-energy...

Miniature Neutron Source Reactor Light Water Subcritical Reactor (LWSCR) Heavy Water Zero Power Reactor (HWZPR) Graphite Subcritical Reactor (GSCR) It was renamed...

physics, an energy amplifier is a novel type of nuclear power reactor, a subcritical reactor, in which an energetic particle beam is used to stimulate a...

1988 and the facility became dormant for 34 years. A new subcritical reactor, the Subcritical Assembly for Training, Education, and Research (SATER), was...

research programs. Early subcritical experiments probed neutronics. In 1942, the first artificial critical nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, was built...

gas-cooled reactors (HTRs) Fast neutron reactors (FNRs) Accelerator driven reactors (ADS) Accelerator-driven subcritical reactor Generation IV reactor India's...

employs 3000 scientists and operates three research reactors, a critical assembly, a subcritical assembly, a hexafluoride conversion facility, a fuel...

generation). In other words, when the reactor is critical, k = 1; when the reactor is subcritical, k < 1; and when the reactor is supercritical, k > 1. Reactivity...

hybrid's fusion core. Another similar concept is the accelerator-driven subcritical reactor, which uses a particle accelerator to provide the neutrons instead...

problem in a subcritical reactor, it may even be slightly advantageous as criticality can be brought closer to unity, while still staying subcritical. The actinides...

nuclear reactor, criticality or critical state is the state in which a nuclear chain reaction is self-sustaining but not growing. Subcriticality or subcritical...

miniature neutron source reactor light water subcritical reactor (LWSCR) heavy water zero power reactor (HWZPR) graphite subcritical reactor (GSCR) Arak – IR-40...

detectors are operable. The equilibrium level of neutron flux in a subcritical reactor is dependent on the neutron source strength; a certain minimum level...

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...

to 3 neutrons, these nuclides represent a net loss of neutrons. A subcritical reactor operating in the thermal neutron spectrum would have to adjust the...

Ukraine operates four nuclear power plants with 15 reactors located in Volhynia and South Ukraine. The total installed nuclear power capacity is over 13...

reported as 2 %ΔK/K. A nuclear reactor with a 2% reactivity is supercritical. A negative sign would indicate that it is subcritical. The per cent mille (pcm)...

other scientists at the University of California, Berkeley in 1942. Subcritical reactor Thermal neutron Void coefficient "INSAG-7: The Chernobyl Accident:...

be added to a U/Pu MOX fuel before it is loaded into a fast reactor or a subcritical reactor run in "Actinide burner mode". This is one means of transmutation...

Spallation is a proposed neutron source in subcritical nuclear reactors like the upcoming research reactor MYRRHA, which is planned to investigate the...

subcritical mass is a mass that does not have the ability to sustain a fission chain reaction. A population of neutrons introduced to a subcritical assembly...

state or may even become either temporarily or permanently shut down (subcritical). In the history of atomic power development, at least 60 criticality...

a common type of music envelope Accelerator-driven subcritical reactor, a nuclear reactor using a particle accelerator to generate a fission reaction...

plug melts, and the fuel drains to a subcritical passively cooled storage facility. This not only stops the reactor, also the storage tank can more easily...

approximately 6% MOX fuel), during a loss of cooling accident in a subcritical reactor MOX fuel will not behave differently from UOX fuel. The key difference...

gold, or other materials. A neutron reflector can make an otherwise subcritical mass of fissile material critical, or increase the amount of nuclear...

the reactor through the chimney, thus interrupting the chain reaction. However, even with a very high neutron multiplication of the subcritical arrangement...

organizations in 13 countries. The super-heated steam cooled reactors operating at subcritical-pressure were experimented with in both Soviet Union and in...

the American Academy of Achievement in 1997. Accelerator-driven subcritical reactor Energy amplifier Megawatts and Megatons William J. Broad (November...