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  2. Swimming pool reactor - Wikipedia

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    The control room of NC State's Pulstar Nuclear Reactor. A swimming pool reactor, [1] also called an open pool reactor, is a type of nuclear reactor that has a core (consisting of the fuel elements and the control rods) immersed in an open pool usually of water. [2] The water acts as neutron moderator, cooling agent and radiation shield. The ...

  3. TRIGA - Wikipedia

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    TRIGA is a swimming pool reactor that can be installed without a containment building, and is designed for research and testing use by scientific institutions and universities for purposes such as undergraduate and graduate education, private commercial research, non-destructive testing and isotope production.

  4. Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor - Wikipedia

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    The Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (OPAL) is a 20 megawatt (MW) swimming pool nuclear research reactor.Officially opened in April 2007, it replaced the High Flux Australian Reactor as Australia's only nuclear reactor, and is located at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Research Establishment in Lucas Heights, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney.

  5. Pool-type reactor - Wikipedia

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    Pool-type reactor can mean: A water-cooled Swimming pool reactor; A Sodium-cooled fast reactor of the pool rather than loop type This page was last edited on 4 ...

  6. Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor

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    The reactor core is situated inside a standing pool of high-purity light water on a grid plate suspended from a movable rail bridge. The pool holds 32 thousand US gallons (120 m 3 ) of this water in a concrete casing that is 19 by 9 feet (5.8 m × 2.7 m) at the base with a depth of 27 to 30 feet (8.2 to 9.1 m).

  7. Once Popular Tourist Hotspots That Are Now Totally Abandoned

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    The resort had a swimming pool, theater, golf course, ski slope, and even a landing strip. ... When the core of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, an amusement park had ...

  8. Crews remove reactor vessel; advancing major Oak Ridge lab ...

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    Workers removed 127,000 gallons of water and sediment to reach the lower portion of the reactor vessel, which sat on the pool floor. They also took out the lead brick shielding in the basement ...

  9. Prepare for the coldest Arctic blast: How to keep your pipes ...

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    Pipes exposed to "severe cold" including outdoor hose bibs, swimming pool supply lines, and water sprinkler lines. (If you have swimming pool or sprinkler supply lines, they needed drained too.)

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