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    A swimming pool reactor, also called an open pool reactor, is a type of nuclear reactor that has a core (consisting of the fuel elements and the control...
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  • Pool-type reactor can mean: A water-cooled Swimming pool reactor A Sodium-cooled fast reactor of the pool rather than loop type This disambiguation page...
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    removed from reactors. A reactor's local pool is specially designed for the reactor in which the fuel was used and is situated at the reactor site. Such...
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    The Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (OPAL) is a 20 megawatt (MW) swimming pool nuclear research reactor. Officially opened in April 2007, it replaced...
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  • mineralogy, archeology, anthropology, and nuclear science. The reactor was a swimming pool reactor, originally operating at 1 MW using 93% enriched U-235 aluminum-based...
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    TRIGA (redirect from TRIGA reactor)
    Edward Teller, was led by the physicist Freeman Dyson. TRIGA is a swimming pool reactor that can be installed without a containment building, and is designed...
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  • Look up pool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pool may refer to: Swimming pool, usually an artificial structure containing a large body of water intended...
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    from the fuel rods of swimming pool reactors can thus be visualized through the transparent water that covers and shields the reactor (see illustration at...
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  • Energy, under which Britain would supply uranium fuel elements for a swimming pool reactor to be designed by India. The agreement further ensured the "close...
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  • to disrupt the launch of an American rocket. Bond sabotages No's swimming pool reactor, allowing the American missile to launch successfully while No and...
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    institutions within the U.S. and throughout the world. The first nuclear reactors in Israel and Pakistan[citation needed] were built under the program by...
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  • its decommissioning fund. SAPHIR The reactors that became known as SAPHIR was a 10–100 kW-range swimming-pool reactor of demonstration brought to Switzerland...
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    BEPO was shut down in 1968. LIDO was an enriched uranium thermal swimming pool reactor which operated from 1956 to 1972 and was mainly used for shielding...
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    analysis and gamma irradiation for various materials. It was a swimming pool reactor. It is now being demolished. Acco Arvīds Ulme Vilhelms Taurītis...
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  • Neutron Source reactor (MNSR) is a small and compact research reactor modeled on the Canadian HEU SLOWPOKE-2 design. The MNSR is tank-in-pool type, with highly...
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    the Azure Swimming Pool, used by the Chernobyl liquidators for recreation during the clean-up. Two floors of bubbler pools beneath the reactor served as...
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  • Commission, with the latest 10-year license issued on 1 July 2014. The swimming pool reactor is used for research, educational, and commercial applications such...
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  • "Costanza" (zero-power reactor): University of Palermo (1960 – operational) Saluggia (Vercelli) - AVOGADRO RS-1 ("Swimming Pool" model): FIAT/Montecatini...
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  • criticality. Gravity driven drainage of reactor liquids provides a passive safety component. Low power swimming pool reactors such as the SLOWPOKE and TRIGA have...
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    University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor (MSTR or Missouri S&TR) is a swimming pool type nuclear reactor operated by the Missouri University of...
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    initiative. Suhrawardy also released funds to import a nuclear swimming pool reactor from America in 1956. In 1956, Prime Minister Suhrawardy halted...
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  • the waterline of the core, and thus, the reactor pressure vessel holds in water much like a deep swimming pool in the event of a feedwater line break or...
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    nuclear reactor built at BARC in 1956 to conduct basic research in nuclear physics. It is 1 MWTh light water cooled and moderated swimming pool type thermal...
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  • Austria, english translation: Adapted swimming pool-type reactor Austria) was a type of nuclear research reactor built in Seibersdorf, Austria near Vienna...
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    supervised the construction of the reactor. The PARR-I is a swimming pool-type and Materials Test Reactor (MTR) type research reactor. Originally based on a designed...
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    Center". The New York Times. May 30, 1956. p. 27. "One-Megawatt 'Swimming Pool' Reactor Completed". The New York Times. November 2, 1957. p. 24. "Research...
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    NS Savannah (section Reactor)
    late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million (including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core) and launched on July 21, 1959. She was funded by United...
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    the bottom of the reactor coolant system to maximize "letdown" through the normal "makeup and letdown system" that, like a swimming pool filtration system...
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    concrete, sand, steel, uranium, and zirconium. The mass formed beneath Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, during the...
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    released due to health concerns in 1990. Later investigations found that reactor design flaws were a more significant factor than human error, although...
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