training, research, and isotope-production reactors-General Atomic

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Also known as: TRIGA reactor

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  • Temelín Nuclear Power Plant, South Bohemia, Czech Republic
    In nuclear reactor: TRIGA reactors

    The training, research, and isotope-production reactors–General Atomic (TRIGA) system is a popular variety of research reactor. It is another tank-type water-cooled system, but its fuel differs from that employed by the plate-fuel research reactors described above. The fuel element of the TRIGA reactor…

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