Nuclear Power

Both Vogtle Units 3 and 4 use a newer reactor design, the Westinghouse AP1000

Although Magnox reactors were initially dual-purposed, combining power generation with plutonium production for military purposes, the latter function from 1964 was confined to other facilities at Windscale.

The Manhattan Project researchers accomplished that mission. Clinton Laboratories, or X-10, then began a rapid evolution into a research laboratory.

considered the largest nuclear energy facility in the United States

Europe's largest nuclear power plant unit

nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission. After completing her doctoral research in 1906, Meitner became the

to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Hahn and

of the construction of Calder Hall, the first large-scale nuclear power station in the West.

2007) was an American electrical engineer and an expert in nuclear energy. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Starr received an electrical engineering

and senior civil service member. He was the "architect of the French nuclear program" that created 61 nuclear reactors and kept the French electricity

His work in the 1950s led to major advances in nuclear-ship technology and civilian use of nuclear power.

As fast-neutron reactors, sodium-cooled fast reactors require nuclear fuel with a higher enrichment to attain criticality than thermal reactors like LWRs.

The RBMK (Russian: Реактор большой мощности канальный, РБМК; reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy, "high-power channel-type reactor") is a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union.

A pebble-bed reactor (PBR) is a type of nuclear reactor where the nuclear fuel is contained within a bed of pyrolytic graphite spheres (pebbles), with the graphite serving as a neutron moderator.

An accelerator-driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) is a nuclear reactor design formed by coupling a substantially subcritical nuclear reactor core with a high-energy proton or electron accelerator.

A traveling-wave reactor (TWR) is a proposed type of nuclear fission reactor that can convert fertile material into usable fuel through nuclear transmutation, in tandem with the burnup of fissile material.

The integral fast reactor (IFR), originally the advanced liquid-metal reactor (ALMR), is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron moderator (a "fast" reactor).

A swimming pool reactor, 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.

TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) is a class of nuclear research reactor designed and manufactured by General Atomics.

The gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR) system is a nuclear reactor design in development.

The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor.

Generation IV (Gen IV) reactors are nuclear reactor design technologies that are envisioned as successors of generation III reactors.

A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes.

The term critical in this context refers to the critical point of water, and should not be confused with the concept of criticality of the nuclear reactor.

The BWRX-300 is a design for a small modular nuclear reactor proposed by GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH).

'China Dragon №1') is a Chinese Generation III pressurized water nuclear reactor jointly developed by the China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).

The APR-1400 (for Advanced Power Reactor 1400 MW electricity) is an advanced pressurized water nuclear reactor designed by the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).

All are designs by GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH), and are based on previous Boiling Water Reactor designs.

Passive nuclear safety is a design approach for safety features, implemented in a nuclear reactor, that does not require any active intervention on the part of the operator or electrical/electronic feedback in order to bring the reactor to a safe shutdown state, in the event of a particular type of emergency (usually overheating resulting from a loss of coolant or loss of coolant flow).

The AP1000 (Advanced Passive 1000) is a nuclear power plant designed and sold by Westinghouse Electric Company.

The Dual Fluid Reactor is classified by its developers as the first Generation V nuclear reactor, characterized by the physical separation of liquid metallic fuel and coolant and by the provision for continuous fuel processing beyond Generation IV reactor concepts.

The CAP1400, later renamed Guohe One, is a Chinese Generation III+ reactor Pressurized water reactor developed by the State Power Investment Corporation.

water flows through the fuel assemblies which are heated by the nuclear chain reaction

Photon-intermediate direct energy conversion (PIDEC) is a scheme for direct conversion of nuclear power to electricity.

The EPR is a Generation III+ pressurised water reactor design.

convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity

a type of nuclear battery that generates electric current from beta particles

He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936.

Leona Harriet Woods (August 9, 1919, November 10, 1986), later known as Leona Woods Marshall and Leona Woods Marshall Libby, was an American physicist who helped build the first nuclear reactor and the first atomic bomb.

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897-18 September 1967) was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led to the development of nuclear power and weapons.

As chair of the AEC, he was one of the pioneers in civilian management of nuclear power resources.

Strauss was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons after World War II, nuclear energy policy, and nuclear power in the United States.

He was also a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University.

Trained as a nuclear physicist, he co-discovered the element neptunium, worked on isotope separation in the Manhattan Project, and wrote the first study of nuclear marine propulsion for submarines.