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    Reactors in continuous processes are typically run at steady-state, whereas reactors in batch processes are necessarily operated in a transient state...
    17 KB (1,911 words) - 07:48, 15 October 2023
  • a SCRAM to immediately shut the reactor down in an emergency. Much of the reactor power control during steady-state operation comes as a result of the...
    5 KB (658 words) - 02:58, 17 June 2024
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    stirred-tank reactor (CSTR), also known as vat- or backmix reactor, mixed flow reactor (MFR), or a continuous-flow stirred-tank reactor (CFSTR), is a...
    22 KB (3,442 words) - 13:49, 6 August 2024
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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...
    33 KB (4,296 words) - 11:58, 28 October 2024
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    the absence of further operator action, a process known as reactor poisoning. In steady-state operation, this is avoided because xenon-135 is "burned off"...
    223 KB (23,561 words) - 01:19, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plug flow reactor model
    The plug flow reactor model (PFR, sometimes called continuous tubular reactor, CTR, or piston flow reactors) is a model used to describe chemical reactions...
    15 KB (2,139 words) - 16:13, 15 April 2024
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    Scram (redirect from Trip, reactor)
    For a reactor that is scrammed after holding a constant power level for an extended period (greater than 100 hrs), about 7% of the steady-state power...
    14 KB (1,866 words) - 18:24, 7 July 2024
  • quickly, approximately 1 μs after the fission event. In steady-state operation, nuclear reactors operate at exact criticality. When at least one dollar...
    41 KB (3,325 words) - 04:25, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Molten-salt reactor
    A molten-salt reactor (MSR) is a class of nuclear fission reactor in which the primary nuclear reactor coolant and/or the fuel is a mixture of molten salt...
    79 KB (9,080 words) - 04:29, 14 November 2024
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    SL-1 (redirect from SL-1 Reactor Accident)
    Low-Power Reactor Number One, also known as SL-1, initially the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR), was a United States Army experimental nuclear reactor in the...
    66 KB (8,324 words) - 21:33, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Washington State University Reactor
    Washington State University Reactor (WSUR) is housed in the Dodgen Research Facility, and was completed in 1961. The (then) Washington State College Reactor was...
    10 KB (1,335 words) - 19:06, 22 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Breeder reactor
    creating more fissile fuel, long-term steady-state operation, or active burning of nuclear wastes. Extant reactor designs are sometimes divided into two...
    81 KB (8,328 words) - 18:00, 16 November 2024
  • reactor is able to sustain a chain reaction of nuclear fissions and is considered a critical reactor. In the case of a bare, homogenous, steady-state...
    6 KB (702 words) - 17:41, 22 February 2022
  • electronic circuit to change from one steady state to another steady state is called the transient time. When a chemical reactor is being brought into operation...
    2 KB (251 words) - 17:28, 7 February 2024
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    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...
    96 KB (10,997 words) - 18:28, 6 November 2024
  • A subcritical reactor is a nuclear fission reactor concept that produces fission without achieving criticality. Instead of sustaining a chain reaction...
    18 KB (2,413 words) - 17:12, 25 May 2024
  • The ARC fusion reactor (affordable, robust, compact) is a design for a compact fusion reactor developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...
    10 KB (1,190 words) - 00:14, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear reactor physics
    absorption mechanisms and leakage from the system). When a reactor's neutron population remains steady from one generation to the next (creating as many new...
    28 KB (4,252 words) - 21:12, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
    Upgrade), is an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, China. The Hefei Institutes of Physical Science is conducting...
    11 KB (905 words) - 06:04, 13 July 2024
  • fluid reactor (DFRm) design – steady state calculations, 2019-04-04 Dual Fluid Reactor website Dual Fluid Reactor at Institute for Solid-State Nuclear...
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