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11Fast 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 …
12Gas turbine modular helium reactor — The Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor (GTMHR) is a nuclear power reactor design under development by General Atomics. It is a helium cooled, graphite moderated reactor and uses TRISO fuel compacts in a prismatic core design. The core consists of …
13Generation IV reactor — Generation IV reactors (Gen IV) are a set of theoretical nuclear reactor designs currently being researched. Most of these designs are generally not expected to be available for commercial construction before 2030, with the exception of a version …
14Behavior of nuclear fuel during a reactor accident — This page is devoted to a discussion of how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions such as overheating. Work in this area is often very expensive to conduct, and so… …
15Nuclear fuel response to reactor accidents — This page is devoted to a discussion of how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions such as overheating. Work in this area is often very expensive to conduct, and so… …
16Dragon reactor — Dragon was a high temperature gas cooled reactor at Winfrith in England operated by UKAEA. Its purpose was to test fuel and materials for the European high temperature reactor programme, and was built and managed as an OECD/NEA international… …
17Nuclear reactor coolant — Nuclear reactor coolants Coolant Melting point Boiling point Light water at 155 bar 345 °C Mercury 38.83 °C 356.73 °C NaK eutectic 11 °C 785 °C Sodium 97.72 °C 883 °C …
18fusion 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… …
19Pressurized 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 …
20Advanced Test Reactor — The Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) is a research reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory. This reactor is primarily designed and used to test materials to be used in other, larger scale and prototype reactors. It can operate at a maximum power of… …
