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  • 1Uranium-238 — Infobox isotope background =#fc6 text color = image caption = 10 gram sample alternate names = mass number =238 symbol =U num neutrons =146 num protons =92 abundance = 99.284% halflife = 4.46 billion years error halflife = decay product = Thorium …

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  • 2Uranium-233 — Infobox isotope background = #fc6 text color = isotope name = Uranium 233 isotope filename = alternate names = mass number =233 symbol =U num neutrons = num protons = abundance = halflife = 160,000 years error halflife = decay product = Thorium… …

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  • 3fast-breed|er reactor — fast breeder, or fast breed|er reactor «FAST BREE duhr, FAHST », an atomic power plant that utilizes fast neutrons to produce its own plutonium fuel as well as generate power with almost no loss of fissionable material: »Two different breeder… …

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  • 4ядерный реактор-размножитель с урановым топливом для наработки плутония — — [А.С.Гольдберг. Англо русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.] Тематики энергетика в целом EN plutonium uranium breed …

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  • 5Breeder reactor — Assembly of the core of Experimental Breeder Reactor I in Idaho, 1951 A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material in fuel than it consumes.[1] These reactors are considered appealing due to their superior fuel… …

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  • 6Fast breeder reactor — The fast breeder or fast breeder reactor (FBR) is a fast neutron reactor designed to breed fuel by producing more fissile material than it consumes. The FBR is one possible type of breeder reactor. The reactors are used in nuclear power plants to …

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  • 7Nuclear weapon design — The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the Gadget device is prepared for the first nuclear test: Trinity. Nuclear weapon designs are physical,… …

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  • 8Nuclear fission — For the generation of electrical power by fission, see Nuclear power. Splitting the atom redirects here. For the EP, see Splitting the Atom. Nuclear physics Radioactive decay Nuclear fission Nuclear fusio …

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  • 9Molten salt reactor — scheme. A molten salt reactor (MSR) is a type of nuclear fission reactor in which the primary coolant, or even the fuel itself is a molten salt mixture. MSRs run at higher temperatures than water cooled reactors for higher thermodynamic… …

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  • 10Nuclear reactor — Core of CROCUS, a small nuclear reactor used for research at the EPFL in Switzerland This article is a subarticle of Nuclear power. A nuclear reactor is a device to initiate and control a sustained nuclear chain reaction. Most commonly they are… …

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