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...essentially a solid inside a ''reactor core'' which is inside the ship's [[nuclear reactor]]. Once a reactor core has gone critical, meaning it has been used during

[https://whatisnuclear.com/reactors.html ''What is a nuclear reactor?''] By Dr. Nick Touran, Ph.D., P.E., accessed 9-May-2023:

...akingnews.com/2008/10/protest-against-nuclear-recator.html Protest against nuclear reactor] ''Chicago Tribune'', October 16, 2008.</ref><ref name="indymedia.org.uk">[

...raised and the criteria that have been established for evaluating the many nuclear reactor designs that are now being proposed as solutions to the global warming prob

Reuven, I notice that you currenly work at a nuclear reactor! Do you think you could provide some detail on the [[Chernobyl_Disaster]]

...x|Fig.1 Radioactivity over time of each major isotope in spent fuel from a nuclear reactor <ref>https://blogs.egu.eu/network/geosphere/2015/02/02/geopoll-what-should-

...'''spent nuclear fuel''') is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a [[nuclear reactor]] (usually at a [[nuclear power plant]]) to the point that it is no longer

...lear energy]] industry, including regulation of research and development [[nuclear reactor|reactors]] and nuclear regulatory research.

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...number of applications, since NAA historically has needed a non-portable [[nuclear reactor]].

* [[Enrico Fermi]], who constructed the first artificial [[nuclear reactor]]

...x|Fig.3 Radioactivity over time of each major isotope in spent fuel from a nuclear reactor <ref>https://blogs.egu.eu/network/geosphere/2015/02/02/geopoll-what-should- === [[ThorCon nuclear reactor|ThorCon]] ===

...r the [[Covid 19]] virus, and suggested measures to store the waste from [[Nuclear reactor]]s.<ref name=cbc2020-04-20/><ref name=ChronicleJournal2022-09/>

...urce, preferably a [[#Neutron generation from nuclear reactors|appropriate nuclear reactor]], detectors for [[gamma ray]]s emitted by the target, and an extensive dat In [[nuclear reactor]]s for power and research, neutron generation steadily increases as more an

...sed widely in industry and medicine, but is also a common contaminant from nuclear reactor accidents.

While [[nuclear reactor]]s are the least portable source of neutrons, they also can be the most pow

| publisher = Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, [[University of Wisconsin]] | publisher = Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, [[University of Wisconsin]]

...anything <ref>[https://citizendium.org/wiki/FC-MSR_nuclear_reactor FC-MSR Nuclear Reactor]</ref> - spent fuel from PWRs, old bomb cores, thorium, even depleted urani

...harnessed, the [[isotope]]s that drove the energy producing reactions in [[nuclear reactor]]s and [[atomic bomb]]s were also referred to as fuels.

...D program is not convincing. Nevertheless, the Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak, and the still not-fully-understood attack on a possible weapons

...ain materials could go into a reactor, but it would take inspection of the nuclear reactor to determine if the use was peaceful. Some components, such as the [[krytro

...y [[Robert Hargraves/Definition|Robert Hargraves]], a founder of [[ThorCon nuclear reactor|ThorCon]].<ref name=Hargraves/>

...people are saying around the web about these questions, see the [[ThorCon nuclear reactor/Debate Guide|Debate Guide]] tab for this article. ...eders like the [https://citizendium.org/wiki/FC-MSR_nuclear_reactor FC-MSR Nuclear Reactor] do require an initial load of enriched fissile material to "light the fire

...1-1954) was an Italian-born nuclear physicist and designer of the first [[nuclear reactor]]. ...ct]], the US atomic-bomb program. Fermi led the construction of the first nuclear reactor, which went critical on 2 December, demonstrating the chain reaction and th

[[Nuclear power plant]]s that use [[nuclear reactor]]s to create electricity could provide the abundant, zero-carbon, dispatcha ...x|Fig.4 Radioactivity over time of each major nuclide in spent fuel from a nuclear reactor. The dangerous nuclides decay quickly. Most longer-lived nuclides are less

*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

...''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>

...hat can be made to undergo [[nuclear fission]] [[chain reaction]]s in a [[nuclear reactor|nuclear fission reactor]]; ''nuclear fuel'' can refer to the material or to ...rly (though not identically) to the enriched uranium feed for which most [[nuclear reactor]]s were designed. MOX fuel is an alternative to low enriched uranium (LEU)

...rgy, Volume 34, Issue 7, April 2009, Pages 2901-2917.</ref>. Ideally, a [[nuclear reactor]] or some similar exothermic generator would provide necessary heat and ele

...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

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...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

...unbreathable. The sky, when free of cloud, is lit by a sun as deadly as a nuclear reactor, drenching the planet in ultraviolet rays. At night, bright meteors flash a

...chieve a uniform pellet size. The pellets are stacked, according to each [[nuclear reactor core]]'s design specifications, into tubes of corrosion-resistant metal [[a A [[nuclear reactor core]] is composed of a few hundred "assemblies", arranged in a regular arr

...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]]