nuclear reactor

     

A nuclear reactor is a evice in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate, as opposed to a nuclear bomb, in which the chain reaction occurs in a fraction of a second and is uncontrolled causing an explosion.

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  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.) The Argonne Lab grew out of World War II fission research in nearby Chicago; the first one of these was built by Fermi on a squash court, & today Argonne is continuing that heritage with new, fast types that destroy their own waste
  • With a net capacity of 1,380 MW, the single largest one of these is the Ignalina station in Lithuania
  • In the 1950s Hyman Rickover led the team that figured out how to fit one of these into a submarine's hull

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