BORAX

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development of nuclear power

  • Temelín Nuclear Power Plant, South Bohemia, Czech Republic
    In nuclear reactor: From production reactors to commercial power reactors

    …series of experimental systems designated BORAX in Idaho. In 1955 one of these, BORAX-III, became the first U.S. reactor to put power into a utility line on a continuous basis. A true prototype, the Experimental Boiling Water Reactor, was commissioned in 1957. The principle of the PWR, meanwhile, had already…

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