• types of reactor cooled by gas, the terms GCR and to a lesser extent gas cooled reactor are particularly used to refer to this type of reactor. The GCR...
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    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 gas-cooled...
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    high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is a type of gas-cooled nuclear reactor which use uranium fuel and graphite moderation to produce very high reactor core...
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    The gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR) system is a nuclear reactor design which is currently in development. Classed as a Generation IV reactor, it features...
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    reactor Gas-cooled fast reactor Generation IV reactor Lead-cooled fast reactor Nuclear fuel cycle Sodium-cooled fast reactor Thermal-neutron reactor "Fast-neutron...
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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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    reactors have been used in commercial electricity generation: Gas-cooled reactors Magnox UNGG reactor Advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) Water-cooled reactors...
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    and in early reactors, mercury. Sodium-cooled fast reactor Lead-cooled fast reactor Gas cooled reactors are cooled by a circulating gas. In commercial...
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  • were: the gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR), the lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR), the molten salt reactor (MSR), the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), the...
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    UNGG reactor is often simply referred to as an GCR in English documents. The UNGG is along with the Magnox the main type of gas cooled reactor (GCR)...
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    advanced gas cooled reactors, generally known as high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) such as the Japanese High Temperature Test Reactor and the...
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  • is a helium cooled, graphite moderated reactor and uses TRISO fuel compacts in a prismatic core design. The power is generated via a gas turbine rather...
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    IV, thermal-neutron reactors, fast-neutron reactors, molten salt, and gas-cooled reactor models. Military specified small reactors were first designed...
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    grid, the Magnox fuel reprocessing plant, the prototype Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) and the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP). Decommissioning...
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    water reactor capable of producing 300 MWth/100 MWe of energy called OPEN100. The family of nuclear reactors known as light-water reactors (LWR), cooled and...
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    Magnox (redirect from MAGNOX reactor)
    gas as the heat exchange coolant. It belongs to the wider class of gas-cooled reactors. The name comes from the magnesium-aluminium alloy (called Magnesium...
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    sodium-cooled fast reactor is a fast neutron reactor cooled by liquid sodium. The initials SFR in particular refer to two Generation IV reactor proposals...
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    include pressure tube heavy water reactors like the CANDU or the Atucha-class PHWRs, and British-built gas-cooled reactors such as Magnox, AGR). MSR operating...
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    The lead-cooled fast reactor is a nuclear reactor design that use molten lead or lead-bismuth eutectic coolant. These materials can be used as the primary...
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  • Void coefficient (category Nuclear reactor safety)
    the reactor is over-moderated). Reactors in which neither the moderator nor the coolant is a liquid (e.g., a graphite-moderated, gas-cooled reactor) will...
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    Soviet-made RBMK nuclear-power reactor. This was the type of reactor involved in the Chernobyl disaster. In the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor, a British design, the...
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    world. Gas cooled thermal reactor - Includes the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor, the gas cooled fast breeder reactor, and the high temperature gas cooled reactor...
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  • KS 150 (category Nuclear reactors)
    KS 150 is a Gas Cooled Reactor using Heavy Water as a moderator (GCHWR) nuclear reactor design. A single example, A-1, was constructed at the Bohunice...
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  • liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor, or LMR is a type of nuclear reactor where the primary coolant is a liquid metal. Liquid metal cooled reactors were first...
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    Torness nuclear power station (category Nuclear power stations using Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors)
    types of reactor then being considered by HM Government for the next stage of the UK civil nuclear programme: the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR), the...
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  • use in a fusion reactor both as a primary coolant and to breed Tritium fuel for D-T reactors. The HTR-PM is a high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) pebble-bed...
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    unlike in the other current large graphite moderated reactor, the advanced gas-cooled reactor. Longitudinal cutting in some of the graphite columns during...
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  • HTR-PM (category Small modular reactor)
    a Chinese small modular nuclear reactor. It is a high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) pebble-bed generation IV reactor evolved from the HTR-10 prototype...
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    liquid metal cooled reactors). A fast SCWR could be a breeder reactor, like the proposed Clean and Environmentally Safe Advanced Reactor and could burn...
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    in liquid or gas phase, are pumped through the catalyst bed. A chemical reactor may also be a fluidized bed; see Fluidized bed reactor. Chemical reactions...
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