reactor core in English

noun

center part of a nuclear reactor where atomic fission takes place

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1. Reactor core temperature.

2. Officials said the reactor core was still intact , and that radiation levels were below legal limits .

3. Leaks in primary circuits distributing heat from the reactor core would be uncontrollable, leading to a core meltdown.

4. This is primarily done to prevent local density variations from affecting neutronics and thermal hydraulics of the reactor core.

5. A Bomblet generator was capable of fashioning potent energy bombs by drawing from the power of a ship's reactor core

6. Radioactivity is induced in the metallic containment vessel that surrounds a reactor core by neutrons that escape from the core.

7. In order to control the rate of the fission process, long control rods that absorb flying neutrons are inserted into the reactor core.

8. That is in spite of the fact that the Three Mile Island accident had already shown that a reactor core could melt down.

9. These Burnable absorbers are used to insert negative reactivity to the reactor core for compensating fuel's excess reactivity at the beginning of the cycle (BOC).

10. The molten reactor core accumulated in room 305/2, until it reached the edges of the steam relief valves; then it migrated downward to the Steam Distribution Corridor.

11. A cooling system removes heat from the reactor core and transports it to another area of the station, where the thermal energy can be harnessed to produce electricity or to do other useful work.

12. All reactors that are Cocooned are entered by radiation technicians once every five years to confirm that no contamination is leaving the sealed reactor core, and that nothing is entering the building from the outside.