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Type of British nuclear reactor
The advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) is a type of nuclear reactor designed and operated by the United Kingdom. These are the second generation of British
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UK experimental HTR, operated from 1965 to 1976
The Windscale Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (WAGR) was a nuclear power plant constructed on the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England. Commissioned
Windscale Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor
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Nuclear site in Cumbria, England
prototype Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) and the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP). Decommissioning projects include the Windscale Piles, Calder
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Type of very-high-temperature reactor
Pebble-bed reactors are typically high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), and are capable of being refueled during operation. The helium-cooled PBR design
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Type of nuclear reactor
reactors have been used in commercial electricity generation: Gas-cooled reactors Magnox UNGG reactor Advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) Water-cooled reactors
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Type of British nuclear reactor
carbon dioxide gas as the coolant. It belongs to the wider class of gas-cooled reactors. The name comes from the magnesium-aluminium alloy (called magnesium
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Reactor accident due to core overheating
so that the emergency core cooling system may be turned on). In a depressurization fault, a gas-cooled reactor loses gas pressure within the core, reducing
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Device for controlled nuclear reactions
and in early reactors, mercury. Sodium-cooled fast reactor Lead-cooled fast reactor Gas-cooled reactors are cooled by a circulating gas. In commercial
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Nuclear power system
carbon dioxide gas as the coolant. The original Magnox was designed to run on natural uranium but the subsequent Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) abandoned
Steam-Generating Heavy Water Reactor
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Nuclear power plant in East Lothian, Scotland
graphite-moderated, gas-cooled design was proven at the Windscale Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor facility – and is a significant evolution of the Magnox reactor designs
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GUINEVERE – fast, accelerator driven, lead-cooled reactor at SCK•CEN, Mol Paldiski – 2 PWR naval training reactors (dismantled) Working: Azur at Cadarache
List of nuclear research reactors
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nine operational nuclear reactors at four locations (eight advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR) and one pressurised water reactor (PWR)), producing 5.9 GWe
Nuclear power in the United Kingdom
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First industrial-scale reactor in the Soviet Union
second nuclear reactor to go critical in the Soviet Union, and the first geographically situated in Asia. It was designed as a light water-cooled, graphite-moderated
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Process of dismantling a nuclear facility
irreversible complete or partial closure of a nuclear facility, usually a nuclear reactor, with the ultimate aim of termination of the operating licence. The process
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Power generated from nuclear reactions
Hall at Windscale, England was connected to the national power grid on 27 August 1956. In common with a number of other generation I reactors, the plant
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Scale to enable communication of safety information in nuclear accidents
incident at the Swiss research reactor in Lucens shows – yet it resides in INES category 4, together with the Windscale fire of 1957, which caused significant
International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale
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Topics referred to by the same term
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British Civil Engineering Business
in 1957 Chapelcross Power Station completed in 1959 The Windscale Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor at Sellafield completed in 1962 Fawley Power Station at
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Substance that slows down particles with no electric charge
the infamous Windscale fire at the Windscale Piles, a nuclear reactor complex in the United Kingdom, in 1957. In a carbon dioxide cooled graphite moderated
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Severe events involving radioactive materials
level 6) October 1957: Windscale fire, UK. Fire ignites a "plutonium pile" (an air cooled, graphite moderated, uranium fuelled reactor that was used for plutonium
Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
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Decommissioned nuclear power plants in England
Restoration Services. Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) power station consisting of two 520 MWe reactors, which began operation in 1983 and
Dungeness nuclear power stations
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Chemical element with atomic number 6 (C)
release the energy safely, although in the Windscale fire the procedure went wrong, causing other reactor materials to combust. The great variety of carbon
Carbon
UK government research organisation
the spent-fuel facility at Windscale, and the dual-purpose Calder Hall and Chapelcross military plutonium producing reactors. The Atomic Energy Authority
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
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after the accident www.osti.gov Wakeford, Richard (2007-09-01). "The Windscale reactor accident—50 years on". Journal of Radiological Protection. 27 (3):
List of nuclear power accidents by country
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Chemical separation of spent nuclear fuel
thermal reactors. Reprocessed uranium can in principle be re-used as fuel. Nuclear reprocessing may include the reprocessing of other nuclear reactor material
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UK atomic bomb development project
a uranium metal plant at Springfields, nuclear reactors and a plutonium processing plant at Windscale, and a gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facility
High_Explosive_Research
Regulations for uses of radioactive materials
in filtered containment vent systems and containment cooling strategies for water cooled reactors". International Atomic Energy Agency. 2017. Retrieved
Nuclear_safety_and_security
Process of manufacturing and using nuclear fuel
releases of all these isotopes from the Windscale event is smaller. Some reactor designs, such as RBMKs or CANDU reactors, can be refueled without being shut
Nuclear_fuel_cycle
INES rating of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
surrounding them produced explosive hydrogen gas. As workers struggled to cool and shut down the reactors, several hydrogen-air chemical explosions occurred
Accident rating of the Fukushima nuclear accident
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British civil servant and mathematician
the development of new reactors. A number of types were developed, including the Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR) at Windscale, considered a natural successor
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Radiation workers health and labor issues
former site of the Windscale nuclear reactor and Calder Hall. The British government began developing the site in 1947 as the Windscale Piles plutonium production
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Nuclear services technology provider
stations Timeline of the electricity supply industry Nuclear Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor Franco-British Nuclear Forum Magnox Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory
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English mathematician and physicist (1909–1991)
1966 decision to develop the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. He took the decision to proceed with the Prototype Fast Reactor at Dounreay and to upgrade the
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Ginns, reactor design engineer; featured Christopher Hinton (of ICI); Harold Disney of supply; Hinton decided to build the plant at Windscale; Sir John
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British royal recognitions
Corps. Herbert Gordon Wainwright, Chief Inspector, UKAEA Constabulary, Windscale Works. Frances Walker, Assistant County Organiser Lincs/Lindsey, Women's
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1833–2002 British engineering company
ejectors, de-aerators and dump condensers for the prototype advanced gas cooled reactor at Windscale and a commission to design the condensing plants and feed
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British royal recognitions
Ministry of Labour. Matthew Spedding, Process Worker, Production Group, Windscale Works, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Marjorie Spencer, District
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Month of 1976
first commercial Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR), generating electricity for the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). The Windscale AGRs had begun
February_1976
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