WHAT DOES REACTOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of reactor in the English dictionary
The first definition of reactor in the dictionary is a substance, such as a reagent, that undergoes a reaction. Other definition of reactor is a vessel, esp one in industrial use, in which a chemical reaction takes place. Reactor is also a coil of low resistance and high inductance that introduces reactance into a circuit.
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REACTOR»
The term «reactor» is very widely used and occupies the
18.726 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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10 QUOTES WITH «REACTOR»
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reactor.
Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.
A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.
Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.
Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
I'm going to build a reactor, that's for sure.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REACTOR»
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reactor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
reactor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Elementary Chemical
Reactor Analysis
Among the best primers on chemical reactor analysis.
2
Reactor Design for Chemical Engineers
Intended primarily for undergraduate chemical-engineering students, this book also includes material which bridges the gap between undergraduate and graduate requirements.
J. M. Winterbottom, Michael King, 1999
3
The Whale and the
Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of ...
"The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve ...
4
Fundamentals of Nuclear
Reactor Physics
This new streamlined text offers a one-semester treatment of the essentials of how the fission nuclear reactor works, the various approaches to the design of reactors, and their safe and efficient operation.
5
Chemical
Reactor Design, Optimization, and Scaleup
This new Second Edition consolidates the latest information on current optimization and scaleup methodologies, numerical methods, and biochemical and polymer reactions.
6
Reaction Kinetics and
Reactor Design, Second Edition
This text combines a description of the origin and use of fundamental chemical kinetics through an assessment of realistic reactor problems with an expanded discussion of kinetics and its relation to chemical thermodynamics.
7
Modeling of Chemical Kinetics and
Reactor Design
This valuable reference volume conveys a basic understanding of chemical reactor design methodologies, incorporating control, hazard analysis, and other topics not covered in similar texts.
A. Kayode Coker, PhD, 2001
8
Principles of Chemical
Reactor Analysis and Design: New ...
The text's unified methodology is applicable to both single and multiple chemical reactions, to all reactor configurations, and to all forms of rate expression. This text also . . .
9
Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical
Reactor Engineering
The book relates the individual aspects of chemical reactor engineering and computational flow modeling in a coherent way to explain the potential of computational flow modeling for reactor engineering research and practice.
10
Chemical
Reactor Design
Featuring case studies and worked examples that illustrate key concepts in the text, this book contains guidelines for scaleup of laboratory and pilot plant results, methods to derive the correct reaction order, activation energy, or ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REACTOR»
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reactor is used in the context of the following news items.
US authorities deny any danger after transformer fire results in …
A nuclear power reactor north of New York City has been shut down after a transformer fire, but officials say the plant is stable and there is no threat to area ... «ABC Online, May 15»
North Korea 'may be trying to restart nuclear reactor'
North Korea may be trying to restart a nuclear reactor which can produce fuel for a nuclear bomb, an American think tank has said. The US-Korea Institute said ... «BBC News, Jan 15»
UN: Iran reportedly buying equipment for reactor
UNITED NATIONS -- Iran is being accused of illicitly stepping up purchases for its heavy water reactor, which if completed will produce enough plutonium for ... «CBS News, Dec 14»
Tehran's dispute with six world powers over Arak reactor 'virtually …
Iran and the six world powers have “virtually agreed” on a settlement regarding the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, according to statements made by an ... «RT, Apr 14»
Navy probing alleged cheating on nuke reactor work
The accused sailors previously had undergone reactor operations training at Charleston before deploying aboard a nuclear-power vessel. In the normal course ... «Yahoo News, Feb 14»
Leaks seen under reactor 1 containment vessel
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it has found water leaks around the bottom of the containment vessel in the reactor 1 building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ... «The Japan Times, Nov 13»
Inside Japan's stricken Fukushima unit four nuclear reactor
Engineers at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station are preparing to extract the first of more than 1,000 nuclear fuel rods from one of the reactor ... «BBC News, Nov 13»
Jellyfish Shut Down Swedish Nuclear Reactor
Jellyfish recently clogged the cooling water intake pipes at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, forcing the world's largest boiling water reactor to shut down. «Discovery News, Oct 13»
Japan halts last nuclear reactor at Ohi
Japan is shutting down its last functioning nuclear reactor, with no timetable for a restart. Reactor 4 at Ohi in western Japan will stop generating electricity in the ... «BBC News, Sep 13»
Satellite images suggest North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor …
Satellite images of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility have again raised questions about whether the country has restarted its plutonium production reactor ... «CNN, Sep 13»
