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    A traveling-wave reactor (TWR) is a proposed type of nuclear fission reactor that can convert fertile material into usable fuel through nuclear transmutation...
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    TerraPower (redirect from Natrium reactor)
    TerraPower is developing a class of nuclear fast reactors termed traveling wave reactors (TWR). TWR places a small core of the enriched fuel in the center...
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  •  36–37 "Wayback Machine" (PDF). www.moltexenergy.com. "Introducing Traveling-Wave Reactors", Intellectual Ventures "Design Certification - NuScale US600"...
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    The traveling wave reactor proposed by TerraPower is designed to "burn" the fuel it breeds in situ, without requiring its removal from the reactor core...
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    country's plutonium stockpile. The traveling wave reactor proposed in a patent by Intellectual Ventures is a fast breeder reactor designed to not need fuel reprocessing...
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    Radioisotope thermoelectric generator Small modular reactor Thorium-based nuclear power Traveling-wave reactor (TWR) Organisations, publications, and campaigns...
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  • understanding with Bill Gates-backed TerraPower for the construction of a traveling wave reactor. In September, CNNC announced a project with the UK's National Nuclear...
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    For example, in the US, TerraPower (using its Traveling Wave technology) is building its own reactors along with molten salt energy storage in partnership...
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    A heavy water reactor (HWR) is a type of nuclear reactor which uses heavy water (D2O, deuterium oxide) as a neutron moderator. It may also use this as...
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    incorporates a PRISM reactor plus TerraPower's Traveling Wave design with a molten salt storage system. Research on IFR reactors began in 1984 at Argonne...
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  • reactor Subcritical fission bomb Supercritical water reactor Supercritical carbon dioxide reactor Transplutonic fission bomb Traveling wave reactor...
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  • developments of nuclear reactors can not be neglected. In 1958, he proposed the concept of Traveling wave reactor which is the nuclear reactor that could breed...
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  • multinational Christian evangelistic broadcaster Traveling wave reactor, a type of nuclear reactor that would convert fertile material into fissile fuel...
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    TerraPower, a nuclear reactor design company co-founded and chaired by Gates, which is developing next generation traveling-wave reactor nuclear power plants...
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  • 0.72% or less, and only some of it was enriched to 0.9%. Traveling wave reactor - a reactor concept that uses depleted uranium for fuel This specific...
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  • non-self-sustaining fission (hybrid fusion–fission reactors fall into this category). Traveling wave reactor, a pure fission reactor with a moving reaction zone, which...
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    Intellectual Ventures that is developing a new kind of nuclear reactor, known as a traveling-wave reactor, that is designed to be safer, cheaper, and cleaner than...
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    natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The idea of a nuclear reactor existing in situ within...
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  • This is a list of wave topics. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...
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  • Toshiba 4S (category Nuclear power reactor types)
    Power. CAREM NuScale Hyperion nuclear reactor (hydride) mPower by Babcock & Wilcox Company Traveling wave reactor Central Research Institute of Electric...
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  • May 22, 2010. Mark Harris, The Sunday Times, May 16, 2010 "TR10: Traveling-Wave Reactor"[permanent dead link] by Matt Wald, Technology Review - March/April...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • salt and traveling wave nuclear reactors". Asia Times. Franco, Michael (2025-04-02). "Molten salt test loop to advance next-gen nuclear reactors". New Atlas...
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  • Reactor I Experimental Breeder Reactor II small modular reactor thorium fuel cycle traveling wave reactor USS Nautilus (SSN-571) Hyman G. Rickover Stock footage...
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  • commercial nuclear reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. The list only includes civilian nuclear power reactors used to generate...
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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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  • Converter (AMTEC) Traveling wave reactor Toshiba 4S CAREM NuScale Hyperion nuclear reactor (hydride) Operator-Free Super Safe Fast Reactor Concept RAPID-L...
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