high-flux nuclear reactor
1High Flux Australian Reactor — (HIFAR) was Australia s first and only nuclear reactor. It was built at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (later ANSTO) Research Establishment at Lucas Heights.Based on the DIDO reactor at Harwell in the UK, HIFAR was cooled and moderated… …
2High Flux Isotope Reactor — The High Flux Isotope Reactor (or HFIR) is a nuclear research reactor located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Operational since 1966, the HFIR is an 85 MW reactor designed for the production of… …
3Nuclear 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… …
4Nuclear 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… …
5Nuclear 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 …
6Petten nuclear reactor — The Petten nuclear reactors are nuclear research reactors in Petten, the Netherlands. There are two reactors on the premises of the Petten research centre: a high flux reactor and a low flux reactor.The high flux reactor (HFR)The high flux… …
7Ford Nuclear Reactor — The Ford Nuclear Reactor was a facility at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor dedicated to investigating the peaceful uses of atomic energy. It was a part of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project, a living memorial created to honor the… …
8McMaster Nuclear Reactor — Above: Construction of the reactor in 1957, completed in 1959. Below: Reactor in 2004. Country Canada Location Hamilton, Ontario Coordin …
9Nuclear power in Australia — is a heavily debated concept. Australia currently has no nuclear facilities generating electricity, however, Australia has 23% of the world s uranium deposits[1] and is the world s second largest producer of uranium after Kazakhstan. At the same… …
10DIDO (nuclear reactor) — For other uses, see Dido. DIDO was a nuclear reactor at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. It used enriched uranium metal fuel, and heavy water as both neutron moderator and primary coolant.… …
