• primary objectives of nuclear reactor safety systems as defined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are to shut down the reactor, maintain it in a shutdown...
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    A nuclear meltdown (core meltdown, core melt accident, meltdown or partial core melt) is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage...
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    Generation III reactors, or Gen III reactors, are a class of nuclear reactors designed to succeed Generation II reactors, incorporating evolutionary improvements...
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    The small modular reactor (SMR) is a class of small nuclear fission reactor, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation...
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    created in a nuclear reactor core during a nuclear meltdown accident. Resembling lava in consistency, it consists of a mixture of nuclear fuel, fission...
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    in the civil case brought by TEPCO shareholders. A number of nuclear reactor safety system lessons emerged from the incident. The most obvious was that...
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    Scram (redirect from Trip, reactor)
    A scram or SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor effected by immediately terminating the fission reaction. It is also the name that is given...
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  • Passive nuclear safety is a design approach for safety features, implemented in a nuclear reactor, that does not require any active intervention on the...
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  • isotopes. Nuclear reactors have been one of the most concerning systems for public safety worldwide because the malfunction of a nuclear reactor can cause...
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    A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating...
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  • Generation IV (Gen IV) reactors are nuclear reactor design technologies that are envisioned as successors of generation III reactors. The Generation IV International...
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    Nuclear power debate Nuclear power plant emergency response team Nuclear whistleblowers Nuclear weapon Micro nuclear reactor Passive nuclear safety Yucca...
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    A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity...
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  • commercial nuclear reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. The list only includes civilian nuclear power reactors used to generate...
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  • also the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC), neither of which are operational facilities as of early 2020. The reactor design is a fast-neutron...
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    "Konvoi [de]" reactors. Siemens ceased its nuclear activities in 2011. The EPR was designed to use uranium more efficiently than older Generation II reactors, using...
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    States tested the SNAP-10A nuclear reactor in space for 43 days in 1965, with the next test of a nuclear reactor power system intended for space use occurring...
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    Diablo Canyon Power Plant reactors, compromising seismic protection systems, which further undermined confidence in nuclear safety. All of these well-publicised...
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  • Small modular reactors (SMR) are much smaller than the current nuclear reactors (300 MWe or less) and have compact and scalable designs which propose...
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    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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    Nuclear reactor physics is the field of physics that studies and deals with the applied study and engineering applications of chain reaction to induce...
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  • AP1000 (redirect from AP1000 reactor)
    nuclear power plant designed and sold by Westinghouse Electric Company. The plant is a pressurized water reactor with improved use of passive nuclear...
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    A generation II reactor is a design classification for a nuclear reactor, and refers to the class of commercial reactors built until the end of the 1990s...
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    advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) is a Generation III boiling water reactor. The ABWR is currently offered by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Toshiba...
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    Thermal-neutron reactors are the most common type of nuclear reactor, and light-water reactors are the most common type of thermal-neutron reactor. There are...
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    Nuclear News. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013. Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA: "Russian Federation: Nuclear Power Reactors"...
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    United States, nuclear power is provided by 94 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 97 gigawatts (GW), with 63 pressurized water reactors and 31 boiling...
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    for not following the safety protocols. He was released due to health concerns in 1990. Later investigations found that reactor design flaws were a more...
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    A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The idea of a nuclear reactor existing in...
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  • Boiling water reactor safety systems are nuclear safety systems constructed within boiling water reactors in order to prevent or mitigate environmental...
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