Sentences with phrase «most thermal reactors»
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All but two of the 440 or so commercial nuclear reactors operating are thermal, and most of them — including the 103 U.S. power reactors — employ water both to slow neutrons and to carry fission - created heat to the associated electric generators.
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Most of these thermal systems are what engineers call light - water reactors.
This is why normal water is used as a coolant in most thermal neutron reactors.