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English: Nuclear reactor: pressurized water type. Water is heated through the splitting of uranium atoms in the reactor core. The water, held under high pressure to keep it from boiling, produces steam by transferring heat to a secondary source of water. The steam is used to generate electricity.
English: Schematic diagram of an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor type nuclear reactor 1. Charge tubes 2. Control rods 3. Graphite moderator 4. Fuel assemblies 5. Concrete pressure vessel and radiation shielding 6. Gas circulator 7. Water 8. Water circulator 9. Heat exchanger 10. Steam
1 Diagram of the Operation of a Nuclear Reactor in a Standard Nuclear Power Plant. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: ...
A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with notable exceptions being the UK, Japan, India and Canada).
A fission fragment reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates electricity by decelerating an ion beam of fission byproducts instead of using nuclear reactions to generate heat. By doing so, it bypasses the Carnot cycle and can achieve efficiencies of up to 90% instead of 40–45% attainable by efficient turbine-driven thermal reactors.
The reactor buildings of Bradwell magnox nuclear power station. The magnox reactors were considered at the time to have a considerable degree of inherent safety because of their simple design, low power density, and gas coolant. Because of this they were not provided with secondary containment features. A safety design principle at the time was ...
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents_diagram.svg licensed with Cc-by-3.0 . 2011-04-05T20:28:46Z Sodacan 614x562 (761315 Bytes) {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Diagram (approximate) of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power plant accidents.
Example of the core of a nuclear power plant, a VVER design. A nuclear reactor core is the portion of a nuclear reactor containing the nuclear fuel components where the nuclear reactions take place and the heat is generated. [1] Typically, the fuel will be low-enriched uranium contained in thousands of individual fuel pins.