The BN-800 reactor (Russian: реактор БН–800) is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk...
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preceding BN-350 reactor. In 2014, its larger sister reactor, the BN-800 reactor, began operation. The plant is a pool type LMFBR, where the reactor, coolant...
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BN-1200 is based on the earlier BN-600 and especially BN-800, with which it shares a number of features. The reactor's name comes from its electrical output...
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The BN-350 was a sodium-cooled,: 3 fast reactor located at the Mangyshlak Nuclear Power Plant (or Mangyshlak Atomic Energy Combine), located in Aktau...
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technology portal Russia portal Generation IV reactor BN-350 reactor BN-600 reactor BN-800 reactor BN-1200 reactor VVER-TOI 56°50′30″N 61°19′21″E / 56.8416°N...
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and BN-800 reactor are similar to the proposed pool type Gen IV SFR designs. Nuclear engineer David Lochbaum cautions, "the problem with new reactors and...
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the reactor tank There are only two commercially operating breeder reactors as of 2017[update]: the BN-600 reactor, at 560 MWe, and the BN-800 reactor, at...
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Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station (category Nuclear power stations with proposed reactors)
The BN-800 is the largest fast neutron power reactor in service in the world. Three turbines are connected to the BN-600 reactor. The BN-600 reactor core...
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present, there are no integral fast reactors in commercial operation. However, the BN-800 reactor, a very similar fast reactor operated as a burner of plutonium...
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nitrogen become a widely used fission reactor coolant? - Atomic Insights". 17 November 2020. "Beloyarsk BN-800 fast reactor running on MOX : Uranium & Fuel...
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OKB Gidropress (section Reactors)
reactors under her flagship or participation: VVER and its variants VKT-12 SVBR-10 SVBR-100 Angstrem VT-1 reactor BM-40A reactor BREST-OD-300 BN-800 reactor...
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BOR-60 (category Liquid metal fast reactors)
MBIR - multi-loop research reactor intends to replace BOR-60. In construction since 2015, est. completion in 2027. BN-800 reactor - generation IV sodium-cooled...
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by powder, or by replacing the air with nitrogen. A Russian breeder reactor, the BN-600, reported 27 sodium leaks in a 17-year period, 14 of which led...
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natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The idea of a nuclear reactor existing in situ within...
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1995 accident and fire. Sodium is also the coolant used in the Russian BN reactor series and the Chinese CFR series in commercial operation today.[citation...
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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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MBIR (category Liquid metal fast reactors)
reactor BN-800 reactor - generation IV sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, operational since 2016 BREST-300 - generation IV lead-cooled fast reactor,...
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Nuclear power proposed as renewable energy (section Conventional fission, breeder reactors as renewable)
only 2 breeder reactors are producing industrial quantities of electricity, the BN-600 and BN-800. The retired French Phénix reactor also demonstrated...
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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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for more reactors via the breeding process. As of 2017, there are two breeders producing commercial power, BN-600 reactor and the BN-800 reactor, both in...
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UNGG reactors: CO2-cooled, graphite-moderated, natural uranium fuel reactors of French design. Operated 1966 - 1994. BN-350; BN-600 & BN-800 reactors: Sodium...
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MOX fuel (section Thermal reactors)
fresh uranium fuel. Fast neutron BN-600 and BN-800 reactors are designed for 100% MOX loading. In 2022, the BN-800 was fully loaded with MOX fuel for...
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RBMK (redirect from Light water graphite-moderated reactor)
reactor") is a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union. It is somewhat like a boiling water reactor as...
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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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gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is a type of gas-cooled nuclear reactor which use uranium fuel and graphite moderation to produce very high reactor core output...
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plant in Aktau (Kazakhstan); the reactor BN-600 reactor and BN-800 reactor for Beloyarsk NPP; the reactor SVBR-100 reactor Archived 2018-12-24 at the Wayback...
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articles listing nuclear reactors. List of commercial nuclear reactors List of inactive or decommissioned civil nuclear reactors List of nuclear power stations...
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A pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR) is a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water (deuterium oxide D2O) as its coolant and neutron moderator. PHWRs...
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The lead-cooled fast reactor is a nuclear reactor design that uses molten lead or lead-bismuth eutectic coolant. These materials can be used as the primary...
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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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