Sentences with phrase «water reactor known»
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This reactor, a 5 MW light - water research reactor known as the Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor (PARR - 1), began operating in 1965 at Pinstech in Nilore.»
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With no fresh, cold water flowing through the system, the reactors began to behave like enormous kettles, boiling the water that was no longer flowing out of the system.
Flaws in the boiling - water reactor safety system at Fukushima Daiichi (as well as Oyster Creek and Vermont Yankee) had been known since 1972.
«Today, we don't know whether spent nuclear fuel from light - water reactors is waste or a resource,» Moniz noted.
Most reactors of this type are known as pressurised heavy water reactors, favoured especially in Canada.