• Shutdown is the state of a nuclear reactor when the fission reaction is slowed significantly or halted completely. Different nuclear reactor designs have...
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  • Government shutdowns Shutdown (computing) Shutdown (economics) Shutdown (nuclear reactor) "Shut Down" (The Beach Boys song), 1963 Shut Down Volume 2, a...
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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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    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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    operates Ukraine's other three nuclear power stations. The plant has six VVER-1000 pressurized light water nuclear reactors (PWR), each fuelled with 235U...
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  • 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 condition...
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    future nuclear power stations. On 1 August 2016, Heysham 2's Unit 8 broke the world record for longest continuous operation of a nuclear power reactor without...
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  • Iodine pit (redirect from Reactor poisoning)
    xenon pit, is a temporary disabling of a nuclear reactor due to buildup of short-lived nuclear poisons in the reactor core. The main isotope responsible is...
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    of the shutdown. It resumed operations on 3 July 2021. On 11 November 2014, Iran and Russia signed an agreement to build two new nuclear reactors at the...
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    early director of CRL and also a Nobel laureate. Until the shutdown of its nuclear reactor in 2018, CRL produced a large share of the world's supply of...
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    risk of human errors in nuclear plant operation. The nuclear power industry has improved the safety and performance of reactors, and has proposed new safer...
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    plant has had numerous safety-related shutdowns and at times been placed on enhanced examination status by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 1999, Northeast...
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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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    4 in 2017. Unit 4 was the last VVER-1000/V-320 reactor built. November 4, 2014 — an emergency shutdown of two power units occurred at the Rostov NPP,...
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  • second nuclear reactor to be built in India. It was modeled on the Canadian Chalk River National Research X-perimental (NRX) reactor. The 40 MW reactor used...
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    thorium, nuclear scientists Ralph W. Moir and Edward Teller suggested that thorium nuclear research should be restarted after a three-decade shutdown and that...
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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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    Nuclear power was used in Germany from the 1960s until it was fully phased out in April 2023. German nuclear power began with research reactors in the...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Advanced boiling water reactor
    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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  • Thumbnail for Fukushima nuclear accident (Unit 2 Reactor)
    The Fukushima Daiichi (Unit 2) reactor, was 1 out of 4 reactors seriously affected during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故, Fukushima...
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    dismantled. The reactors can be classified as follows: PICKERING A PICKERING A 1 (Safe Shutdown state) PICKERING A 2 (Safe Shutdown state, defuelled)...
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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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    largest fully operational nuclear generating station by total reactor count and the number of currently operational reactors since 2016, after it exceeded...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant
    reaching cold shutdown. The plant has not been operating since, and in July 2019 a decision to decommission the plant was made. All reactors in the Fukushima...
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  • Nuclear decommissioning is the process leading to the irreversible complete or partial closure of a nuclear facility, usually a nuclear reactor, with...
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    Fukushima Daiichi is a multi-reactor nuclear power site in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan. A nuclear disaster occurred there after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake...
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    station concluded in the late 1970s, with reactor No. 1 being commissioned in 1977. It was the third Soviet RBMK nuclear power plant, after the Leningrad and...
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    Russian invasion "Operational & Long-Term Shutdown Reactors". IAEA. 13 April 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013. "Nuclear Share of Electricity Generation in 2023"...
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