• The Advanced CANDU reactor (ACR), or ACR-1000, was a proposed Generation III+ nuclear reactor design, developed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)...
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    The 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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  • products offered by Candu Energy Inc. are the CANDU 6 and Enhanced CANDU 6 reactors. Candu Energy Inc. also specializes in advanced fuel cycle technology...
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  • and the Shanghai Electric Group to design, market and build the advanced CANDU reactor. Its ability to use reprocessed uranium will reduce China's stock...
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  • Candu or CANDU may refer to CANDU reactor (CANada Deuterium Uranium), a Canadian pressurized heavy water reactor Advanced CANDU reactor CANDU Owners Group...
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    criticality could occur in a CANDU reactor or any other heavy water reactor when ordinary light water is supplied to the reactor as an emergency coolant....
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  • the CANDU-derived Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station in Quebec, the Fugen Advanced Test Reactor in Japan, and the never-commissioned CIRENE reactor in...
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  • The advanced heavy-water reactor (AHWR) or AHWR-300 is the latest Indian design for a next-generation nuclear reactor that burns thorium in its fuel core...
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  • reactors are a type of pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR) of domestic design, the CANDU reactor. CANDU reactors have been exported to India, Pakistan, Argentina...
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  • Canada. AECL developed the CANDU reactor technology starting in the 1950s, and in October 2011 licensed this technology to Candu Energy. AECL describes its...
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    older Gen II reactors comprise the vast majority of current nuclear reactors. Gen III reactors are so-called advanced light-water reactors (LWRs). Gen...
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    all reactors need to be shut down for refueling; for example, pebble bed reactors, RBMK reactors, molten-salt reactors, Magnox, AGR and CANDU reactors allow...
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  • available from the United States or the Soviet Union. The Canadian CANDU reactor, using heavy water as a moderator, was designed with the same goal of...
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  • Void coefficient (category Nuclear reactor safety)
    power and weapon grade plutonium. The Advanced CANDU reactor, a never built proposed reactor type based on the CANDU, promises a negative void coefficient...
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  • generating capacity of all current operating reactors. CANDU and IPHWR are the most common type of reactors in the PHWR family. Other designs include the...
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  • raw image file converter Advanced CANDU reactor, a nuclear reactor Advanced Communications Riser, a PC slot format Advanced Contrast Ratio or Dynamic...
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  • is developing this reactor in Canada, in partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, with the intent of complementing existing CANDU facilities. India...
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  • Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) – e.g., GE BWR series. CANDU reactor – Canadian heavy water reactors using natural uranium. Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) –...
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    heavy water Halden Reactor Pressurized heavy water Boiling light water Organic medium Pressurized heavy-water reactor CANDU reactor IPHWR Han, Yuxuan;...
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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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    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...
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    Bruce Nuclear Generating Station (category Nuclear power stations using CANDU reactors)
    eight CANDU pressurized heavy-water reactors, until 2016, it was the world's largest fully operational nuclear generating station by total reactor count...
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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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    The advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) is a type of nuclear reactor designed and operated in the United Kingdom. These are the second generation of British...
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    Control rod (category Nuclear reactor safety)
    core. Typical shutdown time for modern reactors such as the European Pressurized Reactor or Advanced CANDU reactor is two seconds for 90% reduction, limited...
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    nuclear reactor in use for power generation are the heavy water moderated reactor, built by Canada (CANDU) and the Republic of India (AHWR), the advanced gas...
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    Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station (category Nuclear power stations using CANDU reactors)
    station located outside of Ontario. The facility consists of a single CANDU nuclear reactor, having a net capacity of 660 MW (705 MW gross). The construction...
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    developed from the 1990s onwards. Both a LWR-type SCWR with a reactor pressure vessel and a CANDU-type SCWR with pressure tubes are being developed.[citation...
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    Nuclear fuel (redirect from CANDU fuel)
    original (PDF) on 2006-03-15. Retrieved 2005-12-17. CANDU Fuel and Reactor Specifics (Nuclear Tourist) Candu Fuel Rods and Bundles Alameri, Saeed A.; Alrwashdeh...
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    CANDU, BWR, AGR, RBMK and VVER are among them. These are contrasted to generation I reactors, which refer to the early prototype of power reactors, such...
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