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    The Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program is a U.S. government research and development program. It is directed by the United States Department of...
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    The light-water reactor (LWR) is a type of thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator;...
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    modeling and simulation program elements Implementing a science-based R&D program The Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program supports national efforts...
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    A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with...
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  • water reactor (PWR). While heavy water is very expensive to isolate from ordinary water (often referred to as light water in contrast to heavy water)...
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    A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of...
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    Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power. The acronym refers to its deuterium oxide (heavy water) moderator and its use...
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    attractive because they made more complete use of uranium fuel than light-water reactors, but interest declined after the 1960s as more uranium reserves were...
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  • fast reactor (GFR), the lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR), the molten salt reactor (MSR), the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), the supercritical-water-cooled...
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    modular construction. Reactor type and the nuclear processes may vary. Of the many SMR designs, the pressurized water reactor (PWR) is the most common...
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    fast-neutron reactor (FNR) or fast-spectrum reactor or simply a fast reactor is a category of nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is sustained by...
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    Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. "Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program: Integrated Program Plan" (PDF). Energy.gov. US Dept. of energy...
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    atomic nucleus. Water (sometimes called "light water" in this context) is the most commonly used moderator (roughly 75% of the world's reactors). Solid graphite...
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    to a liquid metal cooled reactor than to a conventional light water cooled reactor. MSR designs are often breeding reactors with a closed fuel cycle—as...
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    source Generation IV reactor Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program List of books about nuclear issues List of nuclear reactors Lists of nuclear disasters...
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  • Thumbnail for Haigerloch research reactor
    The Haigerloch Research Reactor was a German nuclear reactor test facility. It was built in a rock cellar in Hohenzollerischen Lande Haigerlochearly in...
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    nuclear reactors, specifically the CANDU supercritical water reactor. Concentrated solar power can achieve the high temperatures necessary to split water. Hydrosol-2...
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    was India's first nuclear reactor built at BARC in 1956 to conduct basic research in nuclear physics. It is 1 MWTh light water cooled and moderated swimming...
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    associated with different reactor types. U-235 is the world's primary nuclear fuel and is usually used in light water reactors. U-238/Pu-239 has found the...
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    IAEA reactor database, seven are currently in operation as research reactors. Boiling (light) water reactors (BWRs) Pressurized (light) water reactors (PWRs)...
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    SL-1 (redirect from SL-1 Reactor Accident)
    top of the reactor where the three operators were working. As the water struck the top of the reactor vessel, it propelled the entire reactor vessel to...
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  • A subcritical reactor is a nuclear fission reactor concept that produces fission without achieving criticality. Instead of sustaining a chain reaction...
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    Light-water-moderated reactors (LWRs). Light-water reactors (the most common type of thermal reactor) use ordinary water to moderate and cool the reactors. Because...
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  • announced that in future, the South African nuclear program will concentrate on conventional light water reactors. The NGNP project will continue on HTGRs with...
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  • nuclear program's sustainability and developed plans for constructing a novel pressurized water reactor (PWR) to succeed the original reactors that were...
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    Gainesville, Florida. It is a light water and graphite moderated, graphite reflected, light water cooled reactor designed and used primarily for training...
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    2006-11-09. "STR (Submarine Thermal Reactor) in "Reactors Designed by Argonne National Laboratory: Light Water Reactor Technology Development"". U.S. Department...
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  • the neutron temperatures and fuel compositions present in typical light water reactors, with the concentration of 240 Pu steadily rising with longer irradiation...
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    from such reactors by a factor of two to a value only about 50% more than the projected cost of electricity from advanced light-water reactors. In addition...
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    The integral fast reactor (IFR), originally the advanced liquid-metal reactor (ALMR), is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron...
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