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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...
- 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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uranium reactors but is
virtually only
practiced for
light water reactors operating with
lightly enriched fuel as
spent fuel from e.g.
CANDU reactors is very...
- in
conventional reactors. MSRs can be
refueled while operating (essentially online-nuclear reprocessing)
while conventional reactors shut down for refueling...
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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...
- include:
generation IV, thermal-neutron
reactors, fast-neutron
reactors,
molten salt, and gas-cooled
reactor models.
Commercial SMRs have been designed...
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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...
- been two
major types of
CANDU reactors, the
original design of
around 500 MWe that was
intended to be used in multi-
reactor installations in
large plants...
- 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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commercial nuclear reactors in the world,
sorted by country, with
operational status. The list only
includes civilian nuclear power reactors used to generate...
