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*Propulsion: One nuclear reactor, one shaft.

...mous amounts of energy, which makes the 235 isotope suitable as fuel for [[nuclear reactor]]s and as explosive in nuclear weapons.

...3.82-minute half-life. Indeed, nearly all of the cesium-137 generated in a nuclear reactor is produced through xenon-137 decay rather than directly by fission. ... :“We studied the most prominent 'advanced' nuclear reactor designs. Unfortunately, few are safer or more secure than current generatio

...industry will require vast amounts of process heat, either directly from a nuclear reactor, or using hydrogen as an intermediary. High-temperature reactors are still

...ns of mass destruction]] threats, such as the [[Raid on Osirak]], an Iraqi nuclear reactor under construction.

...''fast-spectrum reactor'' or simply a ''fast reactor'', is a category of [[nuclear reactor]] in which the fission [[nuclear chain reaction|chain reaction]] is sustain ...(around 12–18 months of stable operation in water moderated reactors), the nuclear reactor can no longer sustain the fission process, and the reactor has to be refuel

They are the only known examples of the [[CONAS]] system, in which the nuclear reactor is backed up by a fossil-fueled steam producer for the turbines.

...e hydrogen directly from water using abundant high-temperature heat from a nuclear reactor. See Fig.X

'''[[ThorCon nuclear reactor|ThorCon MSR]]:'''<br>

...ed to as a desolate wasteland by opponents. Chernobyl, the only ‘civilian’ nuclear reactor disaster ever to result in radiation deaths (probably less than 100 based o

...estion is in a special channel which is in a toroidal nuclear reactor. The nuclear reactor is used as a ''driver core'' to irradiate the test fuel. While the reactor

|uses=Nuclear reactor fuel, nuclear weapons

...journal|date=9 September 2021|title=China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor|author=Smriti Mallapaty|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-0245

...that the heat required by the boiler is provided by heat derived from a [[nuclear reactor]].

*In the BWR, the nuclear reactor's coolant water is boiled into saturated steam within the reactor itself by ...the ''secondary loop''. All of the ''primary loop'' is located within the nuclear reactor containment structure. The ''secondary loop'' is partially within the conta

*In the BWR, the nuclear reactor's coolant water is boiled into saturated steam within the reactor itself by ...the ''secondary loop''. All of the ''primary loop'' is located within the nuclear reactor containment structure. The ''secondary loop'' is partially within the conta

...sign, fabrication and testing of nuclear weapons; and the acquisition of a nuclear reactor, they could not create weapons until the 1990s. That date assumed no furthe

...[[radon]] together with the chemistry associated with equipment (such as [[nuclear reactor]]s) which are designed to perform nuclear processes. Nuclear reactors can b

...widely used in medicine and industry, and also a likely contaminant from a nuclear reactor accident, is a beta and gamma emitter with a half-life of 30 years. This ha

*[[Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation]], [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]]