NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Graphite moderated reactor

There are several types of graphite moderated nuclear reactors that have been used in commercial electricity generation: Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Graphite (named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789, from the Greek Î³ÏÎ±Ï†ÎµÎ¹Î½: to draw/write, for its use in pencils) is one of the allotropes of carbon. ... Core of a small nuclear reactor used for research. ... Electricity generation is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers. ...

Categories: Articles to be expanded | Energy stubs | Nuclear power reactor types Schematic diagram of a Magnox nuclear reactor showing gas flow. ... Schematic diagram of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. ... RBMK is an acronym for the Russian reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy (Russian: Ð ÐµÐ°ÐºÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€ Ð‘Ð¾Ð»ÑŒÑˆÐ¾Ð¹ ÐœÐ¾Ñ‰Ð½Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸ ÐšÐ°Ð½Ð°Ð»ÑŒÐ½Ñ‹Ð¹) which means reactor (of) high power (of the) channel (type), and describes a now obsolete class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor which was built only in the Soviet Union. ... Dragon was a prototype high temperature gas cooled reactor at Winfrith in England built and operated by UKAEA. The Dragon complex consists of the reactor and various buildings constructed in the late 1950s/early 1960s to support operations. ... Check [AVR] ... The THTR-300 was a thorium high-temperature nuclear reactor rated at 300 MW electric (THTR-300). ... Fort St. ... The pebble bed reactor (PBR) or pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) is an advanced nuclear reactor design. ...