reactor
反应器,反应堆,反应釜,反应炉
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- : a person or thing that reacts or undergoes reaction.
- : Electricity. a device whose primary purpose is to introduce reactance into a circuit.
- : Immunology, Veterinary Medicine. a patient or animal that reacts positively towards a foreign material.
- : Physics. nuclear reactor.
- : Chemistry. a large container, as a vat, for processes in which the substances involved undergo a chemical reaction.
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This is how the Nuclear Navy builds the appropriate level of knowledge and right temperament to deal with shipboard reactor operations.
The study also finds that, contrary to what those in the industry seem to expect, focusing on standardized designs doesn't really help matters, as costs continued to grow as more of a given reactor design was built.
The government says it wants to see small-scale reactors built, too.
Typically, a nuclear plant is either producing or not, but the modular design allows the Carbon Free Power Project to shut individual reactors off if demand is low.
One of the companies building sodium-cooled systems, Terrapower, makes reactors that can also run on spent or depleted uranium.
In 1981, while the world condemned us, we sent our air force to destroy the Osirak reactor Saddam Hussein was building in Iraq.
Iran is suspected to have aided in the funding of that reactor.
It prohibits the manufacture of new centrifuges and work on the Arak reactor.
Uranium enrichment makes what can be power reactor fuel but also the explosive core of atom bombs.
The reactor has the potential to produce weapons grade plutonium.
And what of those atoms disintegrating while others are still being created in the reactor?
This will be true no matter where in the or for how long the irradiation took place.