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    • The Design of a Nuclear Reactor

      General Article Volume 21 Issue 9 September 2016 pp 843-856

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    • Keywords

       

      Nuclear reactor, design, fuel pin, moderator, optimization, collision.

    • Abstract

       

      The aim of this largely pedagogical article is toemploy pre-college physics to arrive at an understanding of a system as complex as a nuclear reactor. We focus on three key issues: the fuelpin, the moderator, and lastly the dimensions ofthe nuclear reactor.

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      Published
      12 September 2016

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