X-Nico

unusual facts about nuclear reactors



Pandemonium effect

The knowledge of the beta feeding, (Iβ) is important for different applications, like for example, the calculation of the residual heat in nuclear reactors.

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?"

Unconventional oil

A bitumen upgrader is under construction at Fort McMurray, Alberta to supply syngas to replace natural gas, and there were proposals to build nuclear reactors using fuel from nearby Uranium City, Saskatchewan to supply steam and electricity.


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Anti-nuclear movement in Canada

International nuclear policy consultant Mycle Schneider has reported that, as of June 2007, the overall lifetime load factor of the 22 Canadian nuclear reactors was 68.5%, which is quite a poor performance by global standards.

Arild Aspøy

In a series of articles in VG, he showed that heavy water produced by Norsk Hydro had ended up in Indian nuclear reactors used for the production of nuclear weapons.

Blowups Happen

The story was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940, before any nuclear reactors had ever been built, and for its appearance in the 1946 anthology The Best of Science Fiction, Heinlein made some modifications to reflect how a reactor actually worked.

Jake Epp

The government of Dalton McGuinty appointed Epp to the Ontario Power Generation Review headed by John Manley to examine the future role of Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in the province’s electricity market, examine its corporate and management structure, and decide whether the public utility should proceed with refurbishing three more nuclear reactors at the Pickering nuclear power plant.

KSNP

Korean Standardized Nuclear Plant, a series of South Korean nuclear reactors, including the OPR-1000 and APR-1400 designs.

Nuclear power in Taiwan

The retirement of existing nuclear reactors was a significant issue in the 2012 presidential election.

Nuclear safety in the United States

During the Cold War, the project was expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the 60,000 weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Process miniaturization

The advantages of mini nuclear reactors has also been discussed by Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu.

Quebec Agreement

One of the major strains of the Agreement came up in 1944, when it was revealed to the United States that the United Kingdom had earlier made a secret agreement with Hans von Halban to share nuclear information with France after the war in exchange for free use of a number of patents related to nuclear reactors and filed by Frédéric Joliot-Curie and his Collège de France team.

Reactivity

Nuclear chain reaction, a basic parameter describing kinetics and dynamics of nuclear reactors