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    The Stable Salt Reactor (SSR) is a nuclear reactor design under development by Moltex Energy Canada Inc. and its subsidiary Moltex Energy USA LLC, based...
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    molten-salt reactor (MSR) is a class of nuclear fission reactor in which the primary nuclear reactor coolant and/or the fuel is a mixture of molten salt with...
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  • the gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR), the lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR), the molten salt reactor (MSR), the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), the supercritical-water-cooled...
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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). This technology...
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  • emergencies. The stable salt reactor (SSR) is a nuclear reactor design proposed by Moltex Energy. It represents a breakthrough in molten salt reactor technology...
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    reactor (LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based molten (liquid) salt...
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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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  • nuclear reactors. List of commercial nuclear reactors List of inactive or decommissioned civil nuclear reactors List of nuclear research reactors List of...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Natural nuclear fission reactor
    fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The conditions under which a natural nuclear reactor could exist...
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    The light-water reactor (LWR) is a type of thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator;...
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    A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with...
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  • The Dual Fluid Reactor is a reactor concept of the Canadian company Dual Fluid Energy Inc. It combines techniques from molten salt reactors (MSR) and liquid...
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  • The FUJI molten salt reactor is a proposed molten-salt-fueled thorium fuel cycle thermal breeder reactor, using technology similar to the Oak Ridge National...
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    planning to build its own reactors along with molten salt energy storage in partnership with GEHitachi's PRISM integral fast reactor design, under the Natrium...
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    A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of...
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    nuclear reactor is a design of a molten salt reactor with a graphite moderator, proposed by the US-based Thorcon company. These nuclear reactors are designed...
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    fluoride, lithium, beryllium salt) have been suggested.[citation needed] The pebble bed design is passively safe. Because the reactor is designed to handle high...
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    A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. These reactors can be fueled with more-commonly available...
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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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    October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018. "UK Moltex seeks to deploy its Stable Salt Reactor in Canada - Nuclear Engineering International". www.neimagazine.com...
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    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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  • Thumbnail for Integral Molten Salt Reactor
    Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) is a nuclear power plant design targeted at developing a commercial product for the small modular reactor (SMR) market...
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    a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant). It is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction in an ordinary thermal reactor and, depending...
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  • developing small modular molten salt reactors. Their reactor designs, termed "FLEX reactors", are stable salt reactors, and feature a hybrid approach whereby...
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  • A pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR) is a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water (deuterium oxide D2O) as its coolant and neutron moderator. PHWRs...
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    In Europe this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but is now simply...
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    UHTREX Ultra-high-temperature reactor experiment Other Molten salt reactor There have been a number of research or test reactors built that use graphite as...
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    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 output...
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  • The BN-800 reactor (Russian: реактор БН–800) is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk...
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