- Look up
reactor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Reactor may
refer to: Bioreactor, a
device which controls a
biologically active environment. Chemical...
- A
nuclear reactor is a
device used to
initiate and
control a
fission nuclear chain reaction. They are used for
commercial electricity,
marine propulsion...
- On
April 26, 1986, the No. 4
reactor of the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant,
located near Pripyat,
Ukrainian SSR,
Soviet Union (now Ukraine) exploded. With...
- A
breeder reactor is a
nuclear reactor that
generates more
fissile material than it consumes.
These reactors can be
fueled with more-commonly available...
- A 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...
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England in ****berland (now Sellafield, ****bria). The two graphite-moderated
reactors,
referred to at the time as "piles", had been
built as part of the British...
- 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...
- A
boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of
nuclear reactor used for the
generation of
electrical power. It is the
second most
common type of electricity-generating...
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Devices designed to
harness this
energy are
known as
fusion reactors.
Research into
fusion reactors began in the 1940s, but as of 2025, no
device has reached...
- 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...
