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31Pebble bed modular reactor — (Pty) Ltd Type Engineering Industry Nuclear Founded 1994 Headquarters Centurion, Gauteng, South …
32Very high temperature reactor — The Very High Temperature Reactor is a Generation IV reactor concept that uses a graphite moderated nuclear reactor with a once through uranium fuel cycle. This reactor design envisions an outlet temperature of 1000°C. The reactor core can be… …
33Gun-type fission weapon — Gun type fission weapons are fission based nuclear weapons whose design assembles their fissile material into a supercritical mass by the use of the gun method: shooting one piece of sub critical material into another. Although this is sometimes… …
34Pressurized water reactor — (PWRs) (also VVER if of Russian design) are generation II nuclear power reactors that use ordinary water under high pressure (superheated water) as coolant and neutron moderator. The primary coolant loop is kept under high pressure to prevent the …
35fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Cf. reactor (def. 4). * * * Introduction also called fusion power plant or thermonuclear reactor a device to produce electrical power from the energy released in a nuclear… …
36Propulsion par fragments de fission — Cet article concerne l utilisation directe de l énergie cinétique des fragments de fission pour la propulsion . Pour pour le chauffage direct d un fluide propulsif, voir Propulsion nucléaire thermique#Réacteur à fragments de fission. La… …
37Ultra High Temperature Reactor Experiment — Le Ultra High Temperature Reactor Experiment (UHTREX), littéralement « réacteur expérimental à ultra haute température », est un réacteur nucléaire expérimental américain, de type graphite gaz, développé dans les années 1960. Le but… …
38Clementine (nuclear reactor) — Clementine was the code name for the world s first fast neutron nuclear reactor. It was an experimental scale reactor. The maximum output was 25 kW and was fueled by plutonium and cooled by liquid mercury. Clementine was located at Los… …
39Nuclear reactor core — Example of the core of a nuclear power plant, a VVER design. A nuclear reactor core is the portion of a nuclear reactor containing the nuclear fuel components where the nuclear reactions take place. Contents …
40United States Naval reactor — refers to nuclear reactors used by the United States Navy. Reactors are designed by a variety of contractors, then developed and tested at one of three government owned or operated facilities (Naval Reactors Facility, Bettis Atomic Power… …
