The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Formerly known as the Clinton...
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"Graphite reactor" directs here. For the graphite reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, see X-10 Graphite Reactor. A graphite-moderated reactor is...
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Nuclear graphite is any grade of graphite, usually synthetic graphite, manufactured for use as a moderator or reflector within a nuclear reactor. Graphite is...
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Manhattan Project (section X-10 Graphite Reactor)
separation plant operated as a true pilot. The X-10 Graphite Reactor consisted of a huge block of graphite, 24 feet (7.3 m) per side, weighing around 1...
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reactor was graphite moderated and water-cooled, via a contaminating open cycle with the Columbia River. It was preceded by Clinton Laboratory's X-10...
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electricity produced by a nuclear reactor occurred during an experiment 3 years earlier in September 1948 at the X-10 Graphite Reactor at the Oak Ridge National...
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Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR) was a research reactor located at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy national...
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Clinton Engineer Works (redirect from Site X)
project. The X-10 Graphite Reactor was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1 and was the first reactor designed...
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Arthur Compton (section X-rays)
reactor, which went critical on December 2, 1942. The Metallurgical Laboratory was also responsible for the design and operation of the X-10 Graphite...
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non-breeding) reactor operating at 10 MWth or less, with heat rejection to the air via a secondary (fuel-free) salt. The pyrolytic graphite core, grade...
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reaction. He was on hand when the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee went critical in 1943, and when the B Reactor at the Hanford Site did so the...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (redirect from Site X: Oakridge)
National Laboratory, was completed. The site was chosen for the X-10 Graphite Reactor, used to produce plutonium from natural uranium. Enrico Fermi and...
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Thorium-based nuclear power (redirect from Thorium based reactor)
cyclotron. During the Manhattan Project, after the construction of the X-10 Graphite Reactor, Seaborg quickly realized the potential of uranium-233 as a fissile...
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gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is a type of gas-cooled nuclear reactor which uses uranium fuel and graphite moderation to produce very high reactor core output...
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A gas-cooled reactor (GCR) is a nuclear reactor that uses graphite as a neutron moderator and a gas (carbon dioxide or helium in extant designs) as coolant...
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water or graphite that are much less likely to absorb neutrons, allowing them to run on natural uranium fuel. See CANDU, X-10 Graphite Reactor. In either...
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manufactured in the X-10 Graphite Reactor at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, or when they became available, the reactors at the Hanford...
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Metallurgical Laboratory (section Reactor development)
Laboratory also designed the X-10 Graphite Reactor at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the B Reactor at the Hanford Engineer Works...
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Laboratory - Leadership Computing Facility. Archived from the original on March 10, 2018. "DOE Under Secretary for Science Dabbar's Exascale Update". insideHPC...
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RBMK (redirect from Light water graphite moderated reactor)
reactor") is a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union. It is somewhat like a boiling water reactor as...
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the first sample of plutonium from the X-10 Graphite Reactor in April 1944, a problem was discovered: reactor-bred plutonium had a higher concentration...
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Chicago Pile-1 (category Graphite moderated reactors)
development of heavy water production facilities. An air-cooled reactor, the X-10 Graphite Reactor, was built at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee...
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received the first samples of plutonium produced from a nuclear reactor, the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Analyzing...
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305 Test Pile (category Graphite moderated reactors)
the X-10 Graphite Reactor. Like these, it was also natural uranium-fuelled, graphite-moderated. It was the world's first materials testing reactor. Specifically...
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third reactor in the world to do so, the first two being the Chicago Pile-1 reactor at the Metallurgical Laboratory and the X-10 Graphite Reactor at the...
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The Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) was an experimental nuclear reactor designed to test the feasibility of fluid-fuel, high-temperature, high-power-density...
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weapons program focused on heavy water piles as their path to a reactor, discounting graphite on erroneous measurements of Walther Bothe. This culminated...
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pebble-bed reactor (PBR) is a design for a graphite-moderated, gas-cooled nuclear reactor. It is a type of very-high-temperature reactor (VHTR), one...
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quantities bred in a reactor. In April 1944, Los Alamos physicist Emilio Segrè discovered that plutonium produced by the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Clinton Engineer...
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