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  • Nuclear reactor/Related Articles
    {{r|ThorCon nuclear reactor}}
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  • Nuclear power reconsidered/Related Articles
    {{rpl|ThorCon nuclear reactor}}
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  • Spent nuclear fuel/Definition
    Nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant) to the point where it is no longer usefu
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  • Enrico Fermi/Definition
    (1901-1954) Italian born nuclear physicist; designer of the first nuclear reactor.
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  • High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor/Definition
    a medium-sized, next-gen, uranium-fueled, graphite-moderated, helium-cooled [[nuclear reactor|reactor]] that can provide heat for industrial processes, with electricity
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  • FC-MSR nuclear reactor/Related Articles
    [[ThorCon nuclear reactor]]
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  • Chernobyl Disaster/Definition
    A nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, in 1986, consider
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  • Molten salt reactor/Related Articles
    {{rpl|ThorCon nuclear reactor}}
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  • Boiling Water Reactor
    A '''Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)''' is a member of the class of [[nuclear reactor]]s cooled by regular water (i.e., not [[heavy water]]). There is a single
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  • Neutron moderator/Related Articles
    {{r|Nuclear reactor}} {{r|Nuclear reactor coolant}}
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  • Molten chloride salt fast reactor
    #REDIRECT [[FC-MSR nuclear reactor]]
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  • ThorCon nuclear reactor/Comments pro and con
    #REDIRECT [[ThorCon nuclear reactor/Debate Guide]]
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  • Molten chloride salt fast reactor/Definition
    #REDIRECT [[FC-MSR nuclear reactor/Definition]]
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  • Fast breeder reactor
    A '''fast breeder reactor''' is a [[Nuclear reactor]] in which design tradeoffs have been made not to produce the ideal heat fo
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  • Jack Devanney/Definition
    chief engineer of the company producing the [[ThorCon nuclear reactor]] and author of a series of articles on nuclear power.[https://jackdevanney
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  • Nuclear reactor coolant/Definition
    A fluid that flows through a [[nuclear reactor]] absorbing heat produced by [[nuclear reaction]]s inside, essentially [[nu
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  • Reactor moderator/Related Articles
    {{r|Nuclear reactor||**}}
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  • Molten salt reactor/Definition
    A nuclear reactor using molten salt as the fuel or coolant
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  • Robert Hargraves/Definition
    a founder of the company producing the [[ThorCon nuclear reactor]]
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  • High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor
    ...-fourth-generation-nuclear-reactor China Starts Up First Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor]<br>
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  • Criticality (nuclear)
    ...The place can be an [[Atomic bomb|atomic (nuclear) bomb]], the core of a [[nuclear reactor]], or some other place where fissile material is stored or processed.
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  • Very high temperature reactor/Definition
    A nuclear reactor using [[helium]] gas as a coolant, that might provide process heat for prod
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  • Very high temperature reactor
    A '''very high temperature reactor''' is a nuclear reactor using helium gas as a coolant, that might provide process heat for producti
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  • Reactor moderator/Definition
    ...ch absorbs [[neutron]]s, and is used to control the rate of fission in a [[nuclear reactor]]
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  • Nuclear proliferation/Related Articles
    *[[ThorCon nuclear reactor]] a sealed system never opened on site.
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  • Pripyat/Definition
    A city near the [[Chernobyl]] nuclear reactor site in the [[Ukraine]]; abandoned after the 1986 [[Chernobyl Disaster]].
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  • Containment (disambiguation)
    ...Containment vessel]], an extremely strong outside building surrounding a [[nuclear reactor]]
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  • Nuclear power plant
    ...ips. There are several types of nuclear plants depending on the type of [[nuclear reactor]] used. Currently, the two most common types are [[pressurized water react ...In 1951 in Idaho, [[Experimental Breeder Reactor 1]] (EBR-1) was the first nuclear reactor to produce electricity. Development of nuclear power plants for Naval ship
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  • Three Mile Island
    ...Mile Island''' is shorthand for a partial [[meltdown]] that occurred at [[nuclear reactor|reactor]] 2 of the [[Three Mile Island (power plant)|Three Mile Island nucl
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  • Light water reactor/Definition
    A [[nuclear reactor]] that uses regular water, called light water because its [[hydrogen]] nucl
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  • Heavy water reactor/Definition
    A [[nuclear reactor]] that uses [[heavy water]] which has [[hydrogen]] nuclei that are H-2, as
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  • NuScale small modular reactor
    ...es approximately 5 percent of the nuclear fuel of a conventional 1,000 MWe nuclear reactor.<br>
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  • Fast neutron reactor/Definition
    a [[nuclear reactor]] in which the fission [[Chain reaction/Definition|chain reaction]] is sust
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  • Neutron moderator
    A '''reactor moderator''' controls the flow of [[neutron]]s in a [[nuclear reactor]], often in the form of control rods which increase nuclear fission when wi
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  • Manhattan Project
    *"Metallurgical Laboratory" at the [[University of Chicago]], the first [[nuclear reactor]]
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  • Neutron activation analysis/Related Articles
    {{r|Nuclear reactor}}
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  • Nuclear proliferation
    ...extraction of fissile [[plutonium]] (Pu-239) from irradiated [[uranium]] [[nuclear reactor]] fuel. The US forged the way on both paths during its [[World War II]] [[M
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  • Nuclear reactor
    A '''nuclear reactor''' is vessel in which controlled [[nuclear reaction]]s take place within on ...tor. There are also other means used for controlling the power level of a nuclear reactor.
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  • Refueling and Overhaul
    ...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
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  • Integral Fast Reactor/Debate Guide
    [https://whatisnuclear.com/reactors.html ''What is a nuclear reactor?''] By Dr. Nick Touran, Ph.D., P.E., accessed 9-May-2023:
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  • Anti-nuclear movement
    ...akingnews.com/2008/10/protest-against-nuclear-recator.html Protest against nuclear reactor] ''Chicago Tribune'', October 16, 2008.</ref><ref name="indymedia.org.uk">[
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  • Nuclear power reconsidered/Debate Guide
    ...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
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  • Nuclear waste management
    ...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-
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  • Spent nuclear fuel
    ...'''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
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  • Committee on Energy and Commerce
    ...lear energy]] industry, including regulation of research and development [[nuclear reactor|reactors]] and nuclear regulatory research.
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  • Uranium
    |uses= Nuclear reactor fuel
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  • Inductively coupled plasma
    ...number of applications, since NAA historically has needed a non-portable [[nuclear reactor]].
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  • Physicist
    * [[Enrico Fermi]], who constructed the first artificial [[nuclear reactor]]
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  • Wendy O'Connor
    ...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/>
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  • Neutron
    ...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
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  • Caesium
    ...sed widely in industry and medicine, but is also a common contaminant from nuclear reactor accidents.
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  • Neutron generator
    While [[nuclear reactor]]s are the least portable source of neutrons, they also can be the most pow
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  • Neutron activation analysis
    | publisher = Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, [[University of Wisconsin]] | publisher = Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, [[University of Wisconsin]]
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  • Fuel
    ...harnessed, the [[isotope]]s that drove the energy producing reactions in [[nuclear reactor]]s and [[atomic bomb]]s were also referred to as fuels.
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  • Counterproliferation
    ...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
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  • Dual-use
    ...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
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  • Fear of radiation
    ...y [[Robert Hargraves/Definition|Robert Hargraves]], a founder of [[ThorCon nuclear reactor|ThorCon]].<ref name=Hargraves/>
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  • ThorCon nuclear reactor
    ...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
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  • Enrico Fermi
    ...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
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  • Nuclear power reconsidered
    [[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
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  • Ohio-class
    *Propulsion: One nuclear reactor, one shaft.
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  • Radioactivity
    ...mous amounts of energy, which makes the 235 isotope suitable as fuel for [[nuclear reactor]]s and as explosive in nuclear weapons.
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  • Individual emergency preparedness
    *'''Radiological warfare''' helps in the event of [[nuclear reactor]] accidents or local contamination
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  • Energy policy and global warming
    ...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
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  • ThorCon nuclear reactor/Debate Guide
    ...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
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  • Israeli Defense Forces
    ...ns of mass destruction]] threats, such as the [[Raid on Osirak]], an Iraqi nuclear reactor under construction.
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  • Fast neutron reactor
    ...''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
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  • Kirov-class
    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.
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  • Energy storage
    ...e hydrogen directly from water using abundant high-temperature heat from a nuclear reactor. See Fig.X
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  • Cost of nuclear power
    '''[[ThorCon nuclear reactor|ThorCon MSR]]:'''<br>
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  • Nuclear waste management/Debate Guide
    ...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
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  • Post irradiation examination
    ...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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  • Plutonium
    |uses=Nuclear reactor fuel, nuclear weapons
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  • Molten salt reactor
    ...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
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  • Steam
    ...that the heat required by the boiler is provided by heat derived from a [[nuclear reactor]].
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  • Steam generator/Citable Version
    *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
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  • Steam generator
    *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
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  • Italian support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War
    ...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
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  • Nuclear chemistry
    ...[[radon]] together with the chemistry associated with equipment (such as [[nuclear reactor]]s) which are designed to perform nuclear processes. Nuclear reactors can b
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  • Units of radioactivity
    ...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
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  • Executive Schedule (U.S. government)
    *[[Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation]], [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]]
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  • Atomic optical spectrometry
    ...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
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  • Acute radiation syndrome
    ...usually external, such as a concentrated radioisotope, a beam generator, a nuclear reactor, or a nuclear weapon.
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  • Preventive attack
    ...ass destruction]] facilities, such as the 1981 Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, under construction at Osirak.<ref name=Osirak-GS>{{citation
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  • Polonium
    ...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
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  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
    ...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
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  • Physics
    ...hysicists design and perform experiments with [[particle accelerator]]s, [[nuclear reactor]]s, [[telescope]]s, barometers, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, spectrometers, [[
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  • Hydrogen
    While electricity is produced in [[nuclear reactor]]s powered by the [[nuclear fission]] of unstable heavy elements, scientist
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  • Edward Teller
    ...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
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  • Jet engine
    ...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
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