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82Nuclear reactor physics — See also: Critical mass Nuclear reactor physics is the branch of science that deals with the study and application of chain reaction to induce controlled rate of fission for energy in reactors. Most nuclear reactors use a chain reaction to induce …
83nuclear reactor — Physics. reactor (def. 4). Also called nuclear pile. [1940 45] * * * Device that can initiate and control a self sustaining series of nuclear fission reactions. Neutrons released in one fission reaction may strike other heavy nuclei, causing them …
84Nuclear reactor technology — This article is a subarticle of Nuclear power .A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate, as opposed to a nuclear bomb, in which the chain reaction occurs in a… …
85Vertibird — was the name of a line of toy helicopter products made by Mattel between 1971 and the early 1980s. DescriptionGeneralThe VertiBird helicopter flies around a central base containing an electric motor, spring lift assist, pitch control, batteries,… …
86Advanced Boiling Water Reactor — The Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) is a Generation III reactor boiling water reactor. The ABWR was designed by General Electric. The standard ABWR plant design has a net output of about 1350 MWe, however General Electric Hitachi (GEH)has… …
87Nuclear 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… …
88Nuclear fuel — Process …
89Startup neutron source — RBMK reactor control rod positions at the moment of the Chernobyl disaster; blue=startup neutron sources (12), yellow=shortened control rods from the reactor bottom (32), grey=pressure tubes (1661), green=control rods (167), red=automatic control …
90RBMK — is an acronym for the Russian reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy ( ru. Реактор Большой Мощности Канальный) which means High Power Channel Type Reactor , and describes a class of graphite moderated nuclear power reactor which was built in the… …
