These reactors are fueled with natural uranium and are thermal neutron reactor designs.
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This is a thermal neutron reactor design.
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In terms of conventional nuclear technology this design is halfway between thermal and fast-reactor systems.
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According to the test parameters, the thermal output of the reactor should have been no lower than 700 MW at the start of the experiment.
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In addition, they performed the reactions using a microwave reactor instead of a conventional thermal heater.
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New reactor designs ensure that Chernobyl style meltdowns due to thermal runaway becomes an impossibility.
From the guardian.co.uk
The panel also cited NASA's current neglect of nuclear thermal propulsion, in which a nuclear reactor heats a propellant to produce thrust in space.
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The main fields of science involved are reactor physics, reactor dynamics, materials technology, thermal hydraulics, and computational fluid dynamics.
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Like the VHTR, the GFR uses pressurised helium both to cool the reactor core and drive a turbine, yielding higher thermal efficiency than systems with a secondary heat-transfer loop.