The nuclear reactor core is the portion of a nuclear reactor where the nuclear reactions take place.

It is the second most common type of electricity generating nuclear reactor after the pressurized water reactor (PWR), also a type of light water nuclear reactor.

Poland currently operates one nuclear research reactor.

On 26 April 1986, a reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, resulting in the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history.

Babcock Wilcox that make nuclear reactors, here's an integral fast reactor.

In exchange, France would provide the nuclear reactor as the basis for the Israeli nuclear weapons program.

Thermal neutron reactors are the most common type of nuclear reactor, and light water reactors are the most common type of thermal neutron reactor.

In December 2010, Malaysia expressed interest in procuring South Korea's nuclear reactor technology.

The Australian HIFAR nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, Sydney, operated from 1958 to 2006 and has now been replaced by the OPAL reactor in 2006.

Emsland Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear reactor located in the district of Emsland, Germany just south of the Lingen Nuclear Power Plant.

First, there is ad hoc diplomacy, which succeeded in eliminating Libya s nuclear program and closing North Korea s nuclear weapons production reactor.

When Serbian fighter jets flew threateningly low over Slovenia s nuclear power plant, they spared the reactor.

China had secretly made an agreement in 1983 to assist Algeria in developing a nuclear reactor.

Toxic to many animals, heavy water is used in the nuclear reactor industry to moderate (slow down) neutrons.

Kraftwerk Union stopped working at the Bushehr nuclear project in January 1979, with one reactor 50 complete, and the other reactor 85 complete, and they fully withdrew from the project in July 1979.

Europe is equally responsible for advancing research on more secure technologies, particularly a fourth generation of nuclear reactor technology.

Russia has offered to provide nuclear enrichment and reprocessing services for the civilian reactor it is building in Iran.

We are looking forward to joining the International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor project involving nuclear fusion, as a full partner.

The second crisis was immediately preceded by the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in March 1979, which reinvigorated the anti nuclear movement.

Reactor safety

The center produced the fissile material for North Korea's nuclear weapon tests in 2006 and 2009, and since 2009 is developing indigenous light water reactor nuclear power station technology.

Russia s other aim has been to exempt from UN sanctions the Bushehr nuclear reactor that it has been building for Iran.

In both cases the feed material is placed inside a nuclear reactor and removed for processing after a period of time.

A nuclear reactor, a new capital city, military pay increases all of these and more have been on the menu of late.

Israel started investigating the nuclear field soon after its founding in 1948 and with French support secretly began building a nuclear reactor and reprocessing plant in the late 1950s in Dimona.

South Korea is an emerging exporter of nuclear reactors, having concluded agreements with the UAE to build and maintain four advanced nuclear reactors, with Jordan for a research nuclear reactor, and with Argentina for construction and repair of heavy water nuclear reactors.

Nuclear power in South Korea supplies 45 of electricity production, and research is very active with investigation into a variety of advanced reactors, including a small modular reactor, a liquid metal fast transmutation reactor and a high temperature hydrogen generation design.

The IAEA reports that Iran will use the TRR to test fuel for the IR 40 reactor, a reactor that the UN Security Council has demanded that Iran stop building because it could be used to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.

In 1991, the government of the United States said it had unearthed details of the alleged construction of a nuclear reactor in Algeria.

Beneath the installation lay the buried remnants of the North Korean engineered nuclear reactor that Israel s air force had destroyed on September 6, 2007.

Malaysia's nuclear research reactor is operated for peaceful purposes in accordance with the obligations stipulated in Article III, IV and V of the NPT.

While state media reported it will take about two months for the reactor to begin generating electricity, Russia's nuclear agency says it will take longer.

A Bomb in Every Reactor

In August, the reactor aboard India s first indigenously built nuclear submarine, INS Arihant, was activated, bringing the country one step closer to realizing its long sought goal of a nuclear triad the capability to launch nuclear weapons from land, air, and sea.

Not only is Russia building a civilian nuclear reactor in Iran, thereby helping to advance Iranian knowledge of the nuclear process it is also reluctant to support efforts by the United Nations Security Council to press Iran not to develop nuclear weapons.

(Nine years after Israel s bombing raid on Iraq s nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981, Saddam Hussein was nevertheless within a year of having an atomic bomb.)

A full UN sponsored financial squeeze on Iran would jeopardize Russia s profits from providing nuclear fuel for the reactor, which is due to be commissioned soon.

In 1981, following Israel s bombing of Iraq s Osirak reactor, IAEA inspector Roger Richter told the US Congress how Saddam had blocked IAEA access to nuclear sites.

BERLIN Twenty five years after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the ongoing catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan has it must be hoped made clear once and for all that the purported blessings of the nuclear age are mere illusions nuclear power is neither clean nor safe nor cheap.

Only a few days later, we learned that what happened was not a simple accident, but a genuine nuclear catastrophe an explosion of a Chernobyl s fourth reactor.

The nuclear waste typically goes into a dry cask storage out back of the parking lot at the reactor site because most places don't have underground storage yet.

For example, when the reactor blew up, the fire was immediately put out with water, which only worsened the situation as nuclear particles began spreading through the atmosphere.

In October 2013 the VVER 1000 (AES 92) design was selected by the Jordan Atomic Energy Commissionin a competitive tender for Jordan's first twin reactor nuclear power station.

In May 1984, after I authored a book about the consequences of military attacks on nuclear facilities, an Israeli intelligence officer came to California to question me about the vulnerability of the reactor and a proposed nuclear power plant.

The future of nuclear power in the decades to come will, in my view, be a function of technological innovation the development of new reactor and fuel cycle technologies to address nuclear safety, proliferation, waste generation and economic considerations.