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    In electrical engineering, current limiting reactors can reduce short-circuit currents, which result from plant expansions and power source additions...
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  • in series with a bidirectional thyristor valve and, usually, a current limiting reactor (inductor). The thyristor switched capacitor is an important component...
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  • power grid A current limiting reactor is used to limit starting current of motors and to protect variable frequency drives Nuclear reactor, a device for...
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  • three-phase systems. Current limiting reactor Valens, Clemens (12 March 2020). "How-To Calculate the Prospective Short-Circuit Current or PSCC". Elektor...
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  • Series reactors are used as current limiting reactors to increase the impedance of a system. They are also used for neutral earthing. Such reactors are also...
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    needed] Though the current BWRs are considered to be less likely to suffer core damage from the "1 in 100,000 reactor-year" limiting fault than the present...
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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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    is a reinforced steel, concrete or lead structure enclosing a nuclear reactor. It is designed, in any emergency, to contain the escape of radioactive...
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    Fusion power (redirect from Fusion reactor)
    efficiency and heightened safety risks in fusion reactors. SiC tends to trap more tritium, limiting its availability for fusion and increasing the risk...
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    with United States support. It expanded in the 1970s with plans for power reactors, paused after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and resumed secretly during...
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    Bioreactor (redirect from Bio reactor)
    classified as batch, fed batch or continuous (e.g. a continuous stirred-tank reactor model). An example of a continuous bioreactor is the chemostat.[citation...
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  • adjusted to meet varying system conditions. Thyristor-controlled reactors can be used for limiting voltage rises on lightly loaded transmission lines. Another...
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    life. The Centurion Reactor is a future class of nuclear reactor that is being designed to last 100 years. One of the major limiting wear factors is the...
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    that uses an isotope of thorium, 232 Th, as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted into the fissile artificial uranium isotope 233 U...
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    The Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) was an experimental molten-salt reactor research reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge...
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    The advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) is a Generation III boiling water reactor. The ABWR is currently offered by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH)...
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    charging current from the voltage source decreases exponentially with time. Constant current Current limiting Current loop Current mirror Current sources...
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    equivalent to 11 years of emissions left for limiting warming to 1.5 °C while the construction of new nuclear reactors took a median of 7.2–10.9 years in 2018–2020...
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    The integral fast reactor (IFR), originally the advanced liquid-metal reactor (ALMR), is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron...
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    actually incrementally increases the effective inductance; in a shunt reactor an air gap is used for two reasons: with an ungapped core the reluctance...
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    typically incorporate current limiting protection, such as thermal fuses, circuit breakers, or PTC current limiters. To handle larger currents, circuit designers...
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    plants. Currently, reactor capacity is growing slowly and reactors are being run more productively, with higher capacity factors and reactor power levels...
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    more current Hualong One design. The CNP series of Generation II reactors started with the CNP-300 pressurized water reactor, was the first reactor design...
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  • materials are inherently self-limiting. On the other hand, NTC material may also be inherently self-limiting if constant current power source is used. Some...
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    integral molten salt reactor (IMSR) is a nuclear power plant design targeted at developing a commercial product for the small modular reactor (SMR) market. It...
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    many modern warships, the carriers use two A4W pressurized water reactors. The reactors produce steam to drive steam turbines which drive four propeller...
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    Union on the site of the event. The liquidators are widely credited with limiting both the immediate and long-term damage from the disaster. Surviving liquidators...
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    San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (category Nuclear power stations using pressurized water reactors)
    Upgrades designed to last 20 years were made to the reactor units in 2009 and 2010; however, both reactors were shut down in January 2012 after premature wear...
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    safety. Other research envisions a similar low-power reactor using spent fuel where instead of limiting the production of hydrogen by radiolysis, it is encouraged...
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  • 235U is fissile and the other 95% heavy metals like 238U are not). In reactor operations, this percentage is difficult to measure, so the alternative...
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