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49 relations: Beryllium, Boron, Breeder reactor, British Energy, Burnup, CANDU reactor, Carbon dioxide, Central Electricity Generating Board, Charles Stross, Concorde, Critical mass, David Henderson (economist), Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, EDF Energy, Enriched uranium, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Generation II reactor, Graphite, Greenpeace, Hansard, Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station, Heysham nuclear power station, Hinkley Point B Nuclear Power Station, House of Lords, Hunterston B nuclear power station, International Atomic Energy Agency, Light-water reactor, List of nuclear reactors, Magnox, Natural uranium, Neutron cross section, Neutron moderator, Nitrogen, Nuclear graphite, Nuclear power in the United Kingdom, Nuclear reactor, Nuclear reactor core, Office for Nuclear Regulation, Online refuelling, Plutonium, Pressurized water reactor, RBMK, Sellafield, Stainless steel, Steam-generating heavy water reactor, The Guardian, Torness Nuclear Power Station, Uranium dioxide, Watt.
Beryllium
Beryllium is a chemical element with symbol Be and atomic number 4.
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Boron
Boron is a chemical element with symbol B and atomic number 5.
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Breeder reactor
A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes.
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British Energy
British Energy was the UK's largest electricity generation company by volume, before being taken over by Électricité de France (EDF) in 2009.
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Burnup
In nuclear power technology, burnup (also known as fuel utilization) is a measure of how much energy is extracted from a primary nuclear fuel source.
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CANDU reactor
The CANDU, for Canada Deuterium Uranium, is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.
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Central Electricity Generating Board
The Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) was the cornerstone of the British electricity industry for almost forty years, from 1957 to privatisation in the 1990s.
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Charles Stross
Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born 18 October 1964) is an award-winning British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and fantasy.
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Concorde
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003.
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Critical mass
A critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction.
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David Henderson (economist)
David Henderson (born 1927) is a British economist.
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Dungeness Nuclear Power Station
Dungeness nuclear power station may refer to either one or both of a pair of nuclear power stations, only one of which is still operational, located on the Dungeness headland in the south of Kent, England.
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EDF Energy
EDF Energy is an integrated energy company in the United Kingdom, with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom.
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Enriched uranium
Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 has been increased through the process of isotope separation.
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Freedom of Information Act 2000
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c.36) is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that creates a public "right of access" to information held by public authorities.
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Generation II reactor
A generation II reactor is a design classification for a nuclear reactor, and refers to the class of commercial reactors built up to the end of the 1990s.
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Graphite
Graphite, archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline allotrope of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and a form of coal.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Hansard
Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary Debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.
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Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station
Hartlepool power station is a nuclear power station situated on the northern bank of the mouth of the River Tees, south of Hartlepool in County Durham, North East England.
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Heysham nuclear power station
Heysham Power Station is a nuclear power station located in Heysham, Lancashire, England, operated by EDF Energy.
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Hinkley Point B Nuclear Power Station
Hinkley Point B is a nuclear power station near Bridgwater, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel coast of south west England.
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House of Lords
The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Hunterston B nuclear power station
Hunterston B Power Station is a nuclear power station in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
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International Atomic Energy Agency
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.
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Light-water reactor
The light-water reactor (LWR) is a type of thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator – furthermore a solid form of fissile elements is used as fuel.
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List of nuclear reactors
This is a list of all the commercial nuclear reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status.
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Magnox
Magnox is a type of nuclear power/production reactor that was designed to run on natural uranium with graphite as the moderator and carbon dioxide gas as the heat exchange coolant.
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Natural uranium
Natural uranium (NU, Unat) refers to uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature.
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Neutron cross section
In nuclear and particle physics, the concept of a neutron cross section is used to express the likelihood of interaction between an incident neutron and a target nucleus.
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Neutron moderator
In nuclear engineering, a neutron moderator is a medium that reduces the speed of fast neutrons, thereby turning them into thermal neutrons capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction involving uranium-235 or a similar fissile nuclide.
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Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.
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Nuclear graphite
Nuclear graphite is any grade of graphite, usually synthetic graphite, specifically manufactured for use as a moderator or reflector within a nuclear reactor.
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Nuclear power in the United Kingdom
Nuclear power in the United Kingdom generates around a quarter of the country's electricity as of 2016, projected to rise to a third by 2035.
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Nuclear reactor
A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction.
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Nuclear reactor core
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.
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Office for Nuclear Regulation
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is the safety regulator for the civil nuclear industry in the United Kingdom.
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Online refuelling
In nuclear power technology, online refuelling is a technique for changing the fuel of a nuclear reactor while the reactor is critical.
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Plutonium
Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number 94.
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Pressurized water reactor
Pressurized water reactors (PWRs) constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (notable exceptions being the United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada) and are one of three types of light water reactor (LWR), the other types being boiling water reactors (BWRs) and supercritical water reactors (SCWRs).
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RBMK
The RBMK (Реактор Большой Мощности Канальный 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.
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Sellafield
Sellafield is a nuclear fuel reprocessing and nuclear decommissioning site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England.
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Stainless steel
In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox from French inoxydable (inoxidizable), is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5% chromium content by mass.
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Steam-generating heavy water reactor
Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor (SGHWR) is a United Kingdom design for commercial nuclear reactors.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Torness Nuclear Power Station
Torness nuclear power station was the last of the United Kingdom's second generation nuclear power plants to be commissioned.
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Uranium dioxide
Uranium dioxide or uranium(IV) oxide (2), also known as urania or uranous oxide, is an oxide of uranium, and is a black, radioactive, crystalline powder that naturally occurs in the mineral uraninite.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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References
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