Reactors cooled by gas, including the British Magnox and advanced gas-cooled reactor, the very-high-temperature reactor and the pebble bed reactor. A technology belongs here when its cited article describes a gas-cooled reactor. These reactors use a gas such as carbon dioxide or helium to carry heat out of the core and graphite to slow the neutrons, which lets some of them run at higher temperatures than water reactors. A reactor is placed here by the gas cooling the cited article names.
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Magnox (Wikipedia)
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Magnox is a type of nuclear power / production reactor designed and produced in the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia: Advanced gas-cooled reactor
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The advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) is a type of nuclear reactor designed and operated by the United Kingdom.
High-temperature gas-cooled reactor - Wikipedia
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A high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is a type of gas-cooled nuclear reactor which uses uranium fuel and graphite moderation to produce very high reactor core output temperatures. (700 to 950 °C) All existing HTGR reactors use helium coolant.
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A high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is a type of gas-cooled nuclear reactor which uses uranium fuel and graphite moderation to produce very high reactor core output temperatures. (700 to 950 °C) All existing HTGR reactors use helium coolant.
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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.
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