 | A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The conditions under which a natural nuclear... 23 KB (2,992 words) - 16:59, 2 May 2024 |
 | Breeder reactor (redirect from Breeder nuclear fission) fertile material in turn transmutes into fissile material which can undergo fission reactions. Breeders were at first found attractive because they made more... 85 KB (8,717 words) - 22:38, 18 April 2024 |
 | Critical mass (category Nuclear fission) material depends upon its nuclear properties (specifically, its nuclear fission cross-section), density, shape, enrichment, purity, temperature, and surroundings... 19 KB (2,937 words) - 19:27, 15 April 2024 |
Zero power critical is a condition of nuclear fission reactors that is useful for characterizing the reactor core. A reactor is in the zero power critical... 3 KB (307 words) - 02:45, 19 January 2024 |
(Report). Autorité de sûreté nucléaire. 26 July 2011. 2011-AV-129. Avis no 2013-AV-0179 de l'Autorité de sûreté nucléaire du 16 mai 2013 sur les documents... 74 KB (8,599 words) - 08:27, 1 May 2024 |
 | Nuclear fallout (category Fission products) sand with a short half-life. All nuclear explosions produce fission products, un-fissioned nuclear material, and weapon residues vaporized by the heat... 81 KB (9,592 words) - 12:11, 17 April 2024 |
 | (PDF) on January 13, 2013. Bonin, Bernhard; Klein, Etienne (2012). Le nucléaire expliqué par des physiciens. Unusual occurrences during LMFR operation... 17 KB (1,943 words) - 15:35, 27 March 2024 |
| been conducted with a total yield of 545 megaton (Mt): 217 Mt from pure fission and 328 Mt from bombs using fusion, while the estimated number of underground... 68 KB (6,613 words) - 02:39, 21 April 2024 |
| neutron and fails to fission. Pu-240 and Pu-239 are not separated by reprocessing. Pu-240 has a high rate of spontaneous fission, which can cause a nuclear... 13 KB (2,075 words) - 00:23, 10 January 2024 |
 | Nuclear reprocessing is the chemical separation of fission products and actinides from spent nuclear fuel. Originally, reprocessing was used solely to... 89 KB (9,019 words) - 14:57, 23 February 2024 |
 | Extrait de la Revue Générale Nucléaire [Excerpt of the General Nuclear Review]. Société française d'énergie nucléaire: 7. March–April 2006. Archived... 271 KB (29,485 words) - 00:18, 29 April 2024 |
 | pressure to the reactor core where it is heated by the energy released by the fission of atoms. The heated, high pressure water then flows to a steam generator... 33 KB (4,267 words) - 23:06, 31 March 2024 |
(Report). Republic of France, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Département de Prévention et d'étude des Accidents. Archived from the... 24 KB (2,408 words) - 18:59, 26 April 2024 |
 | applicable aux sites nucléaires français Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire, accessed 13 April 2011 Centrale Nucléaire de Fessenheim : appréciation... 103 KB (10,722 words) - 00:51, 8 April 2024 |
 | "France 'would use nuclear arms'". BBC News, Thursday 19 January 2006 Nucléaire : Mise à l'eau du terrible devant Sarkozy - France - LCI Archived 2009-01-24... 45 KB (5,042 words) - 08:09, 27 March 2024 |
 | sample as it is produced. In turn, 99Mo is usually created commercially by fission of highly enriched uranium in a small number of research and material testing... 70 KB (7,753 words) - 09:28, 24 April 2024 |
 | 2012 at the Wayback Machine Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, "Evaluation of nuclear criticality safety data and limits for actinides... 77 KB (9,227 words) - 01:53, 25 April 2024 |
 | French environmental association, Association des Ecologistes Pour le Nucléaire (AEPN), welcomed the ITER project as an important part of the response... 140 KB (14,627 words) - 12:54, 30 April 2024 |
 | spontaneous fission. One microgram (μg) of 252Cf emits 2.3 million neutrons per second, an average of 3.7 neutrons per spontaneous fission. Most other... 44 KB (4,609 words) - 16:21, 25 April 2024 |
Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement". POWER Magazine. February 22, 2012. "Nucléaire : la France abandonne la quatrième génération de réacteurs". Le Monde... 42 KB (4,265 words) - 17:54, 7 April 2024 |
 | fr:Exploitation de l'uranium en France Force de dissuasion nucléaire française fr:Installation nucléaire de base secrète [PDF] Alain Mallevre - The history of... 105 KB (12,642 words) - 22:53, 24 April 2024 |
 | Einsteinium (section Nuclear fission) doi:10.1103/PhysRev.144.1031. Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, "Evaluation of nuclear criticality safety data and limits for actinides... 68 KB (8,047 words) - 14:41, 29 April 2024 |
nucléaires françaises, 23 march 2011, 1 p. (read online archive), in Autorité de sûreté nucléaire. (fr) Philippe Collet, "Audits de sûreté nucléaire:... 230 KB (22,563 words) - 05:20, 27 April 2024 |
a fission explosion compresses and heats the fuel, starting a fusion reaction. Fusion releases neutrons. These neutrons hit the surrounding fission fuel... 87 KB (9,571 words) - 21:24, 9 April 2024 |
 | Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a class of small nuclear fission reactors, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation... 95 KB (10,835 words) - 19:50, 17 April 2024 |
next tests. On 1 April 1960 at 6:17:00 UTC, the 1,250 kg plutonium filled fission bomb was detonated with a yield of 3 kt. The explosion created a crater... 8 KB (785 words) - 09:21, 8 April 2024 |
 | actinides in transport" (PDF). Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 20... 135 KB (15,853 words) - 10:50, 30 April 2024 |
 | test was conducted on 2 July 1966, code named Aldebaran, when a plutonium fission bomb was exploded in the lagoon. Greenpeace states in a 21st-century study... 15 KB (1,431 words) - 00:45, 3 February 2024 |
This is an annotated list of all the nuclear fission-based nuclear research reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. Some "research"... 192 KB (3,149 words) - 17:56, 1 May 2024 |
 | water as a coolant and neutron moderator. Heat is produced by nuclear fission in the reactor core, and this causes the cooling water to boil, producing... 52 KB (7,179 words) - 19:13, 9 February 2024 |