- 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....
-
reactor") is a
class of graphite-moderated
nuclear power reactor designed and
built by the
Soviet Union. It is
somewhat like a
boiling water reactor as...
-
Generation IV (Gen IV)
reactors are
nuclear reactor design technologies that are
envisioned as
successors of
generation III
reactors. The
Generation IV International...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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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...
-
commercial nuclear reactors in the world,
sorted by country, with
operational status. The list only
includes civilian nuclear power reactors used to generate...
