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China Successfully Performs Full Cooling Failure Test On New ‘Meltdown Proof’ Nuclear Reactor
Nuclear energy is one of the most controversial options for producing electricity. On the one hand, nuclear power plants can generate a huge amount of electricity without emitting greenhouse gasses.
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AGR Fuel Route modelling
Advanced Gas-cooled reactors (AGR’s) are a British thermal reactor design developed in the early 1960s as a successor to the Magnox reactor. The fuel assemblies are cooled using Carbon dioxide, with ...
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Computational Study of Flow and Heat Transfer relevant to Nuclear Reactor Applications
The research project contains two stages: The safety case of an aged advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) was investigated at the first stage, and fundamental studies on the turbulence and heat transfer ...
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I walked on a nuclear reactor - Channel 5's Rob Bell goes behind the scenes at a Lancashire's nuclear power station
The station houses two Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGR), which produce over 1200 MW of electricity, enough to power over two million homes. Heysham 2 Station Director, Martin Cheetham said:“It ...