- Look up
reactor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Reactor may
refer to: Bioreactor, a
device which controls a
biologically active environment. Chemical...
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enriched uranium used in the
newest reactors has an
energy density 120,000
times higher than coal.
Nuclear reactors have
their origins in the
World War...
- Mervin,
Evelyn (July 13, 2011). "Nature's
Nuclear Reactors: The 2-Billion-Year-Old
Natural Fission Reactors in Gabon,
Western Africa". blogs.scientificamerican...
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conventional reactors.
These materials are
called fertile materials since they can be bred into fuel by
these breeder reactors.
Breeder reactors achieve this...
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operating in the
United States are
considered Generation II
reactors. Russia's VVER
reactors are
similar to US PWRs, but the VVER-1200 is not considered...
- include:
generation IV, thermal-neutron
reactors, fast-neutron
reactors,
molten salt, and gas-cooled
reactor models.
Commercial SMRs have been designed...
- in
conventional reactors. MSRs can be
refueled while operating (essentially online-nuclear reprocessing)
while conventional reactors shut down for refueling...
- Lead-cooled fast
reactor Nuclear fuel
cycle Sodium-cooled fast
reactor Thermal-neutron
reactor "Fast-neutron
reactors, Fast
nuclear reactors". IAEA. 13 April...
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Generation IV (Gen IV)
reactors are
nuclear reactor design technologies that are
envisioned as
successors of
generation III
reactors. The
Generation IV International...
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average global capacity factor is 89%. Most new
reactors under construction are
generation III
reactors in Asia.
Proponents contend that
nuclear power...
