Reactor - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: reactorBWR
a boiling water reactor a type of nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator the steam produced can drive a steam turbine and produce electrical power...
bioreactor
an apparatus in which a suspension of microorganisms in a liquid are used to perform chemical reactions as in synthesis of pharmaceutical agents or the conversion of harmful waste to less harmful substances The reactor consists of a vessel to contain the suspension of microorganisms plus a variety of attached devices used to control the reaction...
burnup
the amount of fuel used up as in a nuclear reactor...
Choking coil
A coil of small resistance and large inductance used in an alternating current circuit to impede or throttle the current or to change its phase called also reactance coil or reactor these terms being now preferred in engineering usage...
Es
the chemical symbol for einsteinium a transuranic element with atomic number 99 The atomic weight of the longest lived isotope with a half life of 276 days is 254 The first isotope discovered having atomic weight 253 and a half life of 20 days was recognized in 1952 in the debris from a hydrogen bomb test As much as 3 micrograms of einsteinium were produced by a complex process involving long irradiation of plutonium isotopes in nuclear reactors Its chemical properties are those of a trivalent actinide element...
fermium
the transuranic element of atomic number 100 symbol Fm The atomic weight of the most stable isotope having a half life of about 80 days is 257 The first isotope Fm255 was discovered in 1952 in the debris of a thermonuclear explosion Other istopes have been produced in nuclear reactors and by decay of other transuranic elements...
hafnium
A metallic element of atomic number 72 present together with zirconium to the extent of 1 to 5 in zirconium minerals It is a poisonous ductile metal with a brilliant silver luster has an atomic weight of 17849 and has a high melting point 2227deg C It is used in nuclear reactors and incandescent lamps as a scavenger of oxygen and nitrogen See also norium...
Neptunium
A radioactive metallic element of atomic number 93 produced in nuclear reactors from Plutonium or Uranium Symbol Np The atomic weight of the most stable isotope is 2370482...
nuclear energy
Energy derived from nuclear reactions used at present especially of electrical power generated in atomic reactors but encompassing also fusion energy...
nuclear engineering
The branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction and operation of nuclear reactors...
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