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...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

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...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

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

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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

...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]]

...ctrons. In its basic form, it has the restriction of needing access to a [[nuclear reactor]]. NAA, however, has especially good performance on elements with higher at

...usually external, such as a concentrated radioisotope, a beam generator, a nuclear reactor, or a nuclear weapon.

...ass destruction]] facilities, such as the 1981 Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, under construction at Osirak.<ref name=Osirak-GS>{{citation

...ligram amounts in this procedure which uses high neutron fluxes found in [[nuclear reactor]]s. Only about 100 grams are produced each year, making polonium exceedingl

...ions that excessive exposure to high dose [[radiation]] (such as that of [[nuclear reactor]]s and the [[atomic bomb]]s in [[Hiroshima|Hiroshima, Japan]] 1945) increas

...hysicists design and perform experiments with [[particle accelerator]]s, [[nuclear reactor]]s, [[telescope]]s, barometers, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, spectrometers, [[

While electricity is produced in [[nuclear reactor]]s powered by the [[nuclear fission]] of unstable heavy elements, scientist

...joined Fermi at the [[University of Chicago]] to work on the world's first nuclear reactor; Fermi had switched from Columbia to Chicago in April of that year. In June

...n regular jet engines, air was heated using a high-temperature, unshielded nuclear reactor. This dramatically increased the engine burn time, and the ramjet was predi