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Hazards

Hazards and Mitigating Design Choices A nuclear reactor contains many hazards that can ultimately lead to a Fission Product (FP) release including decay heat, excess

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Nuclear Fuels

The conventional UO2/Zircaloy fuel and TRISO based fuels are introduced below on the basis of how they address or exacerbate the hazards present in

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Reactor Architectures

There are many ways to design a nuclear reactor to extract and utilize the nuclear heat. What are the principal design choices and trades for

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