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heat generated by a nuclear reactor exceeds the heat removed by the cooling systems to the point where at least one nuclear fuel element exceeds its melting...69 KB (9,396 words) - 07:18, 9 May 2024
Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines. Heat is created when nuclear fuel undergoes nuclear fission...56 KB (7,082 words) - 18:59, 24 March 2024
nuclear reactor, so no cargo or supplies space is taken up by fuel, nor is space taken up by exhaust stacks or combustion air intakes. The low fuel cost...36 KB (4,131 words) - 22:22, 22 March 2024
The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in...70 KB (9,856 words) - 08:12, 9 May 2024
Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant)...24 KB (2,724 words) - 21:40, 21 December 2023- A fuel element failure is a rupture in a nuclear reactor's fuel cladding that allows the nuclear fuel or fission products, either in the form of dissolved...3 KB (266 words) - 20:50, 17 July 2023
Nuclear transmutation is the conversion of one chemical element or an isotope into another chemical element. Nuclear transmutation occurs in any process...25 KB (3,226 words) - 00:36, 15 April 2024
Nuclear reprocessing is the chemical separation of fission products and actinides from spent nuclear fuel. Originally, reprocessing was used solely to...89 KB (9,019 words) - 14:57, 23 February 2024
are best suited to the amount of U-235 in the fuel element. The amount of energy extracted from nuclear fuel is called its burnup, which is expressed in...86 KB (10,453 words) - 06:52, 16 May 2024
systems to the point where at least one nuclear fuel element exceeds its melting point. This differs from a fuel element failure, which is not caused by high...120 KB (11,797 words) - 21:10, 2 May 2024
Spent fuel pools (SFP) are storage pools (or "ponds" in the United Kingdom) for spent fuel from nuclear reactors. They are typically 40 or more feet (12 m)...15 KB (1,565 words) - 19:44, 1 May 2024
latter substances are part of the minor actinides in spent nuclear fuel. Any weapons-grade nuclear material must have a critical mass that is small enough...13 KB (2,075 words) - 00:23, 10 January 2024
Americium (redirect from Americium nuclear fuel)uranium or plutonium being bombarded with neutrons in nuclear reactors – one tonne of spent nuclear fuel contains about 100 grams of americium. It is widely...77 KB (9,241 words) - 15:30, 9 May 2024
The thorium fuel cycle is a nuclear fuel cycle that uses an isotope of thorium, 232 Th , as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted...38 KB (3,801 words) - 20:28, 12 May 2024
Plutonium (redirect from Element 94)plutonium–uranium–zirconium were investigated for use as nuclear fuels. The addition of the third element increases corrosion resistance, reduces flammability...141 KB (15,142 words) - 03:52, 16 May 2024
nuclear fusion, for fission to produce energy, the total binding energy of the resulting elements must be greater than that of the starting element....74 KB (9,613 words) - 12:09, 14 May 2024
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (redirect from Advanced Fuel Fabrication Facility)development and testing of new reactor fuel, materials, etc. It also researches spent fuel processing and safe disposal of nuclear waste. Its other research focus...66 KB (7,440 words) - 10:09, 9 April 2024- Thorium-based nuclear power generation is fueled primarily by the nuclear fission of the isotope uranium-233 produced from the fertile element thorium. A...73 KB (7,322 words) - 20:33, 12 May 2024
- Plutonium-240 (section Nuclear properties)240Pu. The longer a nuclear fuel element remains in a nuclear reactor, the greater the relative percentage of 240Pu in the fuel becomes. The isotope...9 KB (994 words) - 13:57, 8 February 2024
Boiling water reactor (redirect from Boiling water nuclear reactor)rules require initial "conditioning" of new fuel. This means, for the first nuclear heatup of each fuel element, that local bundle power must be ramped very...52 KB (7,179 words) - 19:13, 9 February 2024
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- Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant)