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Materials
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Safety
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Operating principle
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Overview
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Overview
- Nuclear reactors Nuclear reactor
- Uranium
- Plutonium
- Chemical elements Chemical element
- Boron
- Cadmium
- Silver
- Hafnium
- Indium
- Neutrons Neutron
- Neutron capture
- Cross sections Neutron cross section
- Energies Neutron temperature
- Boiling water reactors Boiling water reactor
- Pressurized water reactors Pressurized water reactor
- Heavy-water reactors Heavy-water reactor
- Thermal neutrons Thermal neutron
- Breeder reactors Breeder reactor
- Fast neutrons Fast neutron
- Project Pluto
Operating principle
- Core of a nuclear reactor Nuclear reactor core
- Control Process control
- Rate Reaction rate
- Nuclear chain reaction
- Thermal power
- Steam
- Electrical power
- Reactivity Reactivity of a nuclear reactor
- Effective neutron multiplication factor
- Shutdown Shutdown (nuclear reactor)
- Temperature reactivity feedback Fuel temperature coefficient of reactivity
- Neutron flux
- European Pressurized Reactor
- Advanced CANDU reactor
- Decay heat
- Pressure vessel
Materials
- Cobalt
- Samarium
- Europium
- Gadolinium
- Terbium
- Dysprosium
- Holmium
- Erbium
- Thulium
- Ytterbium
- Lutetium
- Boron steel
- Boron carbide
- Zirconium diboride
- Titanium diboride
- Hafnium diboride
- Dysprosium titanate
- Neutron-induced swelling
- Silicon carbide
- Boron nitride
- Burnable poison
- Isotopes Isotope
- Pebble bed reactors Pebble bed reactor
- Lithium-7
- Rare-earth elements Rare-earth element
- Yttrium
- Xenotime
- Xenon
- Helium
- Argon
Safety
- Safety measure Nuclear safety
- Electromagnets Electromagnet
- Fail-safe
- Scramming Scram
- Nuclear accidents Nuclear accident
- SL-1
- Chernobyl disaster
- Criticality accidents Criticality accident
- Fissile
- Metals Metal
- Borax
- Sodium
- Borate
- Nitric acid
- Nitrate
- Carbon dioxide
- AGR Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor
- Nitrogen
- Carbon
- Activation Neutron activation
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Control rod
Nodes118
Edges117
Triples63
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016949
Components1
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Control rod
Top relations
related to Further reading · 20
Control rod → August, Behavior, Energy, Experiments, Karlsruhe Institute, March, May, Office, OSTI, Petti, Powers, Retrieved May, Scientific, Silver-indium-cadmium, Stegmaier, Steinbrueck, Technical, Technical Information, Technology, United States Department
has prevention · 8
Control rod → AGR, Chernobyl, Homogeneous, In, Mismanagement, SL-1, The, This
related to Additional means of reactivity regulation · 5
Control rod → BWRs, Operators, Other, PWR, This
related to Operating principle · 5
Control rod → Control, If, Maintaining, The, When
related to Safety · 4
Control rod → BWR, In, Quickly, This
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| boron | instance of | Their compositions include chemical elements | 0.80 | text |
| cadmium | instance of | Their compositions include chemical elements | 0.80 | text |
| silver | instance of | Their compositions include chemical elements | 0.80 | text |
| hafnium | instance of | Their compositions include chemical elements | 0.80 | text |
| or indium | instance of | Their compositions include chemical elements | 0.80 | text |
| that are capable of absorbing many neutrons without themselves decaying | instance of | Their compositions include chemical elements | 0.80 | text |
| the European Pressurized Reactor or Advanced CANDU reactor is two seconds for 90 | instance of | calculated adjustments to fuel distribution can be made to maintain similar reaction rates and temperatures in different parts of the core.Typical shutdown time for modern reactors | 0.80 | text |
| zirconium | instance of | materials | 0.80 | text |
| chromium | instance of | materials | 0.80 | text |
| silicon carbide | instance of | materials | 0.80 | text |
| or cubic 11 B15 N | instance of | materials | 0.80 | text |
| hafnium | instance of | They may be reduced by using an element | 0.80 | text |
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