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2 unusual facts about Nuclear reactor


DEMO

As a prototype commercial fusion reactor DEMO could make fusion energy available by 2033.

Richard Behar

A 2003 report by Behar in Fortune explored Donald Rumsfeld's role in helping North Korea build its potential Nuclear weapon capacity, in an article entitled "Rummy’s North Korea Connection: What Did Donald Rumsfeld Know About ABB’s Deal to Build Nuclear Reactors There? And Why Won’t He Talk About It?"


Adventure International

Secret Mission (originally called Mission Impossible): Prevent terrorists from destroying a nuclear reactor.

Alatau, Kazakhstan

The town is notable for its Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kazakhstan National Nuclear Center (formerly of the Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences), which houses an experimental nuclear reactor and cyclotron.

Herbert Goldstein

From 1950, Goldstein was a Senior Physicist at Nuclear Development Corporation of America, where he directed theoretical research on the shielding of nuclear reactors and on neutron cross sections of interest for reactor design.

Institute for Strategy and Reconciliation

Under the Agreed Framework, the DPRK agreed to "freeze" and eventually dismantle its production reactors in return for two proliferation resistant commercial nuclear reactors of the light water type (LWR) and 500,000 metric tonsof heavy fuel oil each year, until the first LWR unit goes into operation.

Kahl am Main

Despite the name, the first nuclear reactor in Germany, the "Versuchsatomkraftwerk Kahl" (“Kahl Experimental Nuclear Power Station”) was not built in Kahl am Main but in the neighbouring municipality of Großwelzheim (now part of Karlstein am Main).

Kjellberg Finsterwalde

In 2004, a new record was established by using three FineFocus 800 plasma cutting machines connected in parallel for the dismantling of a disconnected nuclear reactor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Levy County, Florida

On April 7, 2008, Progress Energy Florida of St. Petersburg announced it had authorized Shaw and Westinghouse to purchase long-lead-time materials for up to two AP1000 nuclear reactors for its Levy County plant, a greenfield plant in Levy County, producing about 1,100 MW each.

Nuclear safety in the United States

The SL-1, or Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, was a United States Army experimental nuclear power reactor which underwent a steam explosion and meltdown on January 3, 1961, killing its three operators.

Parvez Butt

Butt was part of the Pakistani delegation that led to a successful agreement with General Electric to supply country's first CANDU type-nuclear reactor, under the name of Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP).

Peter Riederer

Before he embraced neuroscience he had completed scientific studies at the Nuclear reactor Center Seibersdorf in Austria.

Project Iceworm

From 1960 until 1963 the electricity supply was provided by means of the world's first mobile/portable nuclear reactor, designated the PM-2A and designed by Alco for the US Army.

Public Service Enterprise Group

PSEG Nuclear operates three nuclear reactors at two facilities in Lower Alloways Creek Township.

Reed Research Reactor

The Reed Research Reactor (RRR) is a research nuclear reactor located on-campus at Reed College in Portland, OR.

S5G reactor

This nuclear reactor was installed both as a land-based prototype at the Nuclear Power Training Unit, Idaho National Laboratory near Arco, Idaho, and on board the USS Narwhal (SSN-671); both have been decommissioned.

Young Einstein

He invents rock and roll and uses it to save the world from being destroyed due to misuse of a nuclear reactor under the watchful eye of Charles Darwin.


see also

ADSR

Accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor, a nuclear reactor using a particle accelerator to generate a fission reaction in a sub-critical assembly of fissionable material

Ahmad Kashani

According to Trita Parsi's Treacherous Alliance, in early 1980 Kashani visited Israel to discuss arms sales and military cooperation regarding Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.

David L. Hoof

Following a stint as a teacher at Montgomery College, Hoof was employed by the United States Department of Energy, where he was part of the nuclear reactor fuel reprocessing program.

Egypt and weapons of mass destruction

It begans its nuclear program in 1954 which expanded to include Russian A 2MW nuclear reactor that was opened by President Gamal Abdel-Nasser at Inchass in 1961.

Electricity sector in France

The European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) at Flamanville, the first new nuclear reactor to be built in France in 15 years, is now expected to open in 2016 instead of the original starting date of 2012, and will cost €8.5bn instead of the original estimate of €3.3bn.

James Flower

After promotion to captain, he was the Western Fleet’s senior engineering staff officer and, from 1970, commanded the nuclear reactor testing and training establishment at Dounreay before spending four years based at the Ministry of Defence in Bath as Deputy Director (Design) for marine engineering with the Director-General (Ships).

Krokus

CROCUS, a nuclear reactor operated by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Lew Kowarski

He supervised the construction of Canada's first nuclear reactor (ZEEP) at the Chalk River Laboratories in 1945.

Neutron reflector

To obtain a 30 year life span, the SSTAR nuclear reactor design calls for a moveable neutron reflector to be placed over the column of fuel.

Nuclear energy in Belgium

In 1959, the Trico Center was established in Kinshasa its TRICO I research reactor was the first nuclear reactor on the African continent.

Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor

The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is a 500MWe fast breeder nuclear reactor presently being constructed in Kalpakkam, India.

Radionuclide

This isotope is produced in a nuclear reactor from europium or enriched gadolinium.

Timewyrm: Exodus

They would make sure Hitler avoided his major mistakes (the delay at Dunkirk, opening the second front against the Soviet Union), and with the aid of a nuclear reactor in the basement, see to it that Nazism took over the world, and eventually, beyond.

TR-1700-class submarine

The Argentine Navy requested that INVAP develop the CAREM nuclear reactor to power these submarines, but the program was halted in late 1980s.