"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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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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tube reactors like the heavy water CANDU or the Atucha-class PHWRs, light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK, and British-built gas-cooled reactors such...
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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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which also acts to moderate the neutron reactions. There are also graphite moderated reactors in use. One type uses solid nuclear graphite for the neutron...
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nuclear program likewise used graphite as a moderator and ultimately developed the graphite moderated RBMK as a reactor capable of producing both large...
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The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Formerly known as the Clinton Pile...
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gas-cooled reactors (GCRs) moderated by graphite, while those used by Israel, India, and Pakistan were believed to be heavy water reactors (HWRs).[citation needed]...
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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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Kingdom. These are the second generation of British gas-cooled reactors, using graphite as the neutron moderator and carbon dioxide as coolant. They have...
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reasons. Historically thermal spectrum graphite-moderated gas-cooled reactors mostly competed with light water reactors, ultimately losing out to them after...
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Neutron moderator (redirect from Moderator (Nuclear Reactor))
moderator (roughly 75% of the world's reactors). Solid graphite (20% of reactors) and heavy water (5% of reactors) are the main alternatives. Beryllium...
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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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graphite-moderated reactor (LWGR), with an initial power level of 100 MWt (megawatts thermal). Its design and purpose were similar to the B Reactor,...
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alternative to the Project's uranium enrichment plants. The B reactor was graphite moderated and water-cooled, via a contaminating open cycle with the Columbia...
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B-VIII experiment. The Manhattan Project pursued both graphite and heavy water-moderated reactors as paths to plutonium weapons. The P-9 Project sourced...
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self-sustaining fusion reactor for any purpose has ever been built. Used by thermal reactors: Graphite-moderated reactors Mostly early reactors such as the Chicago...
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Windscale Piles (category Graphite moderated reactors)
The Windscale Piles were two air-cooled graphite-moderated nuclear reactors on the Windscale nuclear site in Cumberland (now known as Sellafield site...
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36Kr + 3 1 0n Heavy water reactors and some graphite moderated reactors can use natural uranium, but light water reactors must use low enriched uranium...
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Magnox (redirect from MAGNOX reactor)
Magnox is a type of nuclear power / production reactor that was designed to run on natural uranium with graphite as the moderator and carbon dioxide gas as...
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Chicago Pile-1 (category Graphite moderated reactors)
design for a water-cooled production reactor. There remained concerns about the ability of a graphite-moderated reactor being able to produce plutonium on...
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TMSR-LF1 (category Graphite moderated reactors)
facility, is planned for the same site.[location note] New reactor specifications include: core graphite 3 m tall x 2.2 m wide, 700 °C operating temperature...
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The ADE-2 is a dual use water-cooled thermal graphite-moderated reactor. The reactor was dual-purpose - producing weapons-grade plutonium and providing...
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world's oldest operating reactor. The fuel in F-1 is metallic uranium with the natural content of the 235 U isotope (0.72%), graphite as a moderator, and cadmium...
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Framatome and Japanese Fuji Electric. It is a helium cooled, graphite moderated reactor and uses TRISO fuel compacts in a prismatic core design. The power...
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GLEEP (redirect from Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile)
Oxfordshire (then in Berkshire), in an aircraft hangar. It was a graphite moderated, air-cooled reactor and used 11,500 natural uranium fuel aluminium-clad rods...
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Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) – UK graphite-moderated, CO₂-cooled. All of these are thermal reactors using moderators like water or graphite. Enhanced safety, longer...
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Nyongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center (redirect from Yongbyon Reactor)
reprocessed within a few years of removal from a reactor. As a carbon dioxide cooled, graphite moderated Magnox reactor does not require difficult-to-produce enriched...
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Windscale fire (redirect from Windscale Nuclear reactor)
north-west coast of England in Cumberland (now Sellafield). The two graphite-moderated reactors, referred to at the time as "piles", had been built as part of...
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existing designs to become the 'graphite moderated, organic cooled reactor' and 'heavy water moderated, organic cooled reactor', respectively. Possible moderators...
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