Miyagawa Chōshun was a Japanese painter of the ukiyo-e style of popular, colourful art based on everyday life. He was the founder of the Miyagawa school of painting. Chōshun went to Edo about 1700 and fell under the influence of the works of Hishikawa Moronobu (d. c. 1694), who established the

Miyagawa Chōshun was a Japanese painter of the ukiyo-e style of popular, colourful art based on everyday life. He was the founder of the Miyagawa school of painting. Chōshun went to Edo about 1700 and fell under the influence of the works of Hishikawa Moronobu (d. c. 1694), who established the

Chlamydia, a genus of bacterial parasites that cause several different diseases in humans. The genus is composed of three species: C. psittaci, which causes psittacosis; Chlamydia trachomatis, various strains of which cause chlamydia, trachoma, lymphogranuloma venereum, and conjunctivitis; and C.

Miyagi, ken (prefecture), northern Honshu, Japan, its indented coastline forming Sendai Bay of the Pacific Ocean. The western and, to a lesser extent, northeastern regions are mountainous. The central Sendai Plain, which extends southward to the southern coastline, contains the prefectural capital,

Japanese music: Traditional styles: …following World War I was Miyagi Michio (1894–1956), a blind koto teacher in the Ikuta school. In 1921 he composed the piece Ochiba no odori (“Dance of the Falling Leaves”), which used two koto, samisen, and a 17-stringed bass koto of his invention. Later works by Miyagi combine orchestras of…

Miyake Yoshinobu is a Japanese weightlifter who won three Olympic medals, including two golds, in the 1960s. Standing just over 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall, Miyake was introduced to weightlifting while attending Hosei University, where Japanese weightlifters trained outdoors with little coaching or

Issey Miyake was a Japanese fashion designer who was known for combining Eastern and Western elements in his work. He also had a popular line of fragrances that included L’Eau d’Issey. Miyake studied graphic design at Tokyo’s Tama Art University, and after graduation he moved in 1965 to Paris,

Miyako, city, eastern Iwate ken (prefecture), northeastern Honshu, Japan. It is situated on the estuary of the Hei River, facing Miyako Bay (an embayment of the Pacific Ocean). The city has been an important fishing port since the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867) and is known for its salmon,

Kyōto, city, seat of Kyōto fu (urban prefecture), west-central Honshu island, Japan. It is located some 30 miles (50 km) northeast of the industrial city of Ōsaka and about the same distance from Nara, another ancient centre of Japanese culture. Gently sloping downward from north to south, the city

Miyakonojō, city, southern Miyazaki ken (prefecture), southern Kyushu, Japan. It is situated on the upper Ōyodo River in a valley surrounded by mountains. The city developed around the castle built by the Shimazu family in the early 11th century. During the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867),

Miyamoto Musashi was a famous Japanese soldier-artist of the early Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867). Musashi began his career as a fighter early in life when, at age 13, he killed a man in single combat. In 1600 he was on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara (which paved the way for

Miyamoto Musashi was a famous Japanese soldier-artist of the early Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867). Musashi began his career as a fighter early in life when, at age 13, he killed a man in single combat. In 1600 he was on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara (which paved the way for

Wii Fit: …to the game’s Japanese designer, Miyamoto Shigeru, the Wii Fit has the potential to connect physical therapists and personal trainers with their clients over the Internet.

Hayashi Fumiko was a Japanese novelist whose realistic stories deal with urban working-class life. Hayashi lived an unsettled life until 1916, when she went to Onomichi, where she stayed until graduation from high school in 1922. In her lonely childhood she grew to love literature, and when she

Miyazaki, ken (prefecture), southeastern Kyushu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. Most of its area is mountainous, and there is a small coastal plain. The southern coast contains Nichinan-kaigan Quasi-national Park, which includes the offshore island of Ao and is noted for its tropical and

Miyazaki Hayao is an influential Japanese anime director whose lyrical and allusive works have won both critical and popular acclaim. His notable films include Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), and The Boy and the Heron (2023). Miyazaki’s father was the

Sun Yat-sen: Years in exile: …1897, he was met by Miyazaki Torazō, an adventurer who had heard of the London incident and who was willing to help Sun in his political activities. Miyazaki introduced Sun to many influential Japanese, including the elder statesmen Ōkuma Shigenobu, Soejima Taneomi, and Inukai Tsuyoshi, from some of whom Sun…

Miyazaki Yūzen was a Japanese painter credited with perfecting a rice-paste dyeing method that made possible the economical production of sumptuously decorated cloth. He gave his name to the process (yūzen-zome) by which elaborate designs and pictures were drawn on silk with a rice-paste coating.

Miyazaki Yūzen was a Japanese painter credited with perfecting a rice-paste dyeing method that made possible the economical production of sumptuously decorated cloth. He gave his name to the process (yūzen-zome) by which elaborate designs and pictures were drawn on silk with a rice-paste coating.

Miyazawa Kiichi was the prime minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993. Born into a family of politicians, Miyazawa graduated in law from Tokyo Imperial University in 1941 and soon secured a civilian position in the finance ministry (1942–52). In 1953 he was elected to the Diet (parliament) and in 1962

Kan’ami was a Japanese actor, playwright, and musician who was one of the founders of Noh drama. Kan’ami organized a theatre group in Obata to perform sarugaku (a form of popular drama that had apparently included tricks, acrobatics, and slapstick skits), which by his time had become plays with

Japan: The Ōnin War (1467–77): …hands of their retainers, the Miyoshi family (1558–65), until it was finally usurped by their own retainers, the Matsunaga family (1565–68).

Beijing: Municipal services: Notable are the large Miyun Reservoir, northeast of the city, and the Guanting Reservoir, which impounds the Yongding in the northwestern mountains beyond the Great Wall. These regulate the flow of the rivers upstream, storing water at times of heavy discharge and then allowing it to be released when…

Unani medicine: Arkan and mizaj: elements and temperament: The four essential mizaj (temperaments) are hot, cold, moist, and dry. Four more are compounded of those single temperaments—namely, hot and dry, hot and moist, cold and dry, and cold and moist. Possessed in different proportion, mizaj is balanced by all entities in the cosmos, including all plants,…

Ottoman Empire: The Young Turk Revolution of 1908: As editor of Mizan (“Balance”), published first in Istanbul (1886) and later in Cairo and Geneva, Murad Bey preached liberal ideas combined with a strong Islamic feeling; that may have contributed to his defection and return to Istanbul in 1897. Ahmed Rıza in Paris edited Meşveret (“Consultation”), in…

Kâtip Çelebi: …al-ḥaqq fi ikhtijārī al-ahaqq (The Balance of Truth) defends positive sciences and Islāmic doctrine and criticizes fanaticism.

Mizar, first star found (by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1650) to be a visual binary—i.e., to consist of two optically distinguishable components revolving around each other. Later, each of the visual components was determined to be a spectroscopic binary; Mizar is actually

Jam Master Jay was an American rap musician and producer who was a member of Run-DMC, the first rap group to attract a worldwide audience. The group is credited with bringing hip-hop into the cultural mainstream, known for such hits as “It’s Like That” and “Walk This Way.” In 2002 Jam Master Jay

zouk: …played at such parties was mizik zouk. Included in the mizik zouk rubric were the Haitian popular music styles known as compas and cadence, beguine from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and cadence-lypso, a hybrid of Haitian cadence and Trinidadian calypso popularized in Dominica in the 1970s.

aulos: …double clarinets—such as the arghūl, mizmār, and zamr—that are played in the Mediterranean littoral and the Middle East. The performer’s cheeks often look bulged because the two single reeds vibrate continuously inside the mouth as the player uses nasal (or circular) breathing.

Mizo, any of a number of ethnic groups, most speaking Tibeto-Burman languages, whose homeland lies in the Mizo Hills, a mountainous region in the southeastern part of Mizoram state in northeastern India. Beyond the homeland proper, many Mizo have settled in the neighbouring states of Tripura,

Mizo Hills, mountain range in southeastern Mizoram state, northeastern India, forming part of the north Arakan Yoma system. The Mizo Hills rise to about 7,000 feet (2,125 meters), and their slopes are covered with thick evergreen forest containing valuable timber and bamboo. In the intermontane

Mizoram, state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country and is bounded by Myanmar (Burma) to the east and south and Bangladesh to the west and by the states of Tripura to the northwest, Assam to the north, and Manipur to the northeast. The capital is Aizawl, in the

Aizawl: …the mid-1960s members of the Mizo National Front launched an armed attack on local government offices in Aizawl, but it was quickly suppressed by government forces. The insurgency continued, and in 1972 the union territory of Mizoram was created from a portion of Assam, with Aizawl as the administrative centre.…

Mizoguchi Kenji was a Japanese motion-picture director whose pictorially beautiful films dealt with the nature of reality, the conflict between modern and traditional values, and the redeeming quality of a woman’s love. In 1919, after he had studied painting and had spent a short time designing

science fiction: Sex and gender: In Mizora (1890), Mary Bradley Lane presented an early feminist utopia, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Herland (1915) imagined a society of women who reproduce by parthenogenesis.

Mizoram, state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country and is bounded by Myanmar (Burma) to the east and south and Bangladesh to the west and by the states of Tripura to the northwest, Assam to the north, and Manipur to the northeast. The capital is Aizawl, in the

Richard F. Heck: …reaction became known as the Heck reaction (or the Mizoroki-Heck reaction after Japanese chemist Mizoroki Tsutomu, who developed a more practical version of Heck’s original reaction). The technique of palladium catalysis found extensive use in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, and electronics industries.

Mizoram, state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country and is bounded by Myanmar (Burma) to the east and south and Bangladesh to the west and by the states of Tripura to the northwest, Assam to the north, and Manipur to the northeast. The capital is Aizawl, in the

Mizraḥi, (Hebrew: “Spiritual Centre”), religious movement within the World Zionist Organization and formerly a political party within Zionism and in Israel. It was founded in 1902 by Rabbi Yitzḥaq Yaʿaqov Reines of Lida, Russia, to promote Jewish religious education within the framework of Zionist

Mizrahi Jew, member or descendant of the approximately 1.5 million Jews who lived in North Africa and the Middle East up until the mid-20th century and whose ancestors did not previously reside in Europe. Collectively labeled ʿEdot Ha-Mizraḥ (Hebrew: “Ethnic Groups of the East”) in Israel upon

Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer who is known for provocative clothing designs as well as for his outsize personality on television and in film. He made a career of dressing the Hollywood elite as well as the general public. Mizrahi was raised in a religious Syrian Jewish household.

the New York Dolls: 6, 1972, London, England) Sylvain Sylvain (byname of Sylvain Sylvain Mizrahi; born February 14, 1951, Cairo, Egypt—died January 13, 2021, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) Jerry Nolan (born May 7, 1946, New York City—died January 14, 1992, New York City) Arthur Kane

sports betting: Legal status, ethical issues, and athlete involvement in betting schemes: example, Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, was accused of stealing about $17 million from Ohtani to cover Mizuhara’s sports betting debts; Mizuhara pleaded guilty to fraud charges, while Ohtani was cleared of involvement with Mizuhara’s gambling. A player for the San Diego Padres was banned from the MLB for…

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., Japanese bank holding company, one of the largest in the world in terms of assets, which exceeded $1 billion when it was founded. Mizuho originated in September 2000 with the mergers of Dai-Ichi Kangyō Bank, Fuji Bank, and the Industrial Bank of Japan. Losses at Mizuho

Japan: Political reform in the bakufu and the han: Mizuno Tadaakira, a senior councillor with acute business acumen, rose to power as a personal attendant to Ienari. But he and other high officials seemed as addicted to bribery as earlier regimes, and the corruption of the bakufu increased considerably. On the surface things seemed…

Mizuno Tadakuni was the chief adviser to Tokugawa Ieyoshi (reigned 1837–53), 12th Tokugawa shogun, or military dictator, of Japan. Mizuno was responsible for the Tempō reforms, the Tokugawa shogunate’s final effort to halt the growing social and economic decline that was undermining its rule. The

Kaburagi Kiyokata: …of painting in 1891 under Mizuno Toshikata, a painter in the tradition of ukiyo-e (paintings and wood-block prints of the “floating world”). Around the age of 17 he became a well-known illustrator for newspapers, and in 1900 he organized a group of painter friends, called Ugōkai (“the Rabble”), and aimed…

Ōshū, city, southern Iwate ken (prefecture), northeastern Honshu, Japan. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of Mizusawa and a number of surrounding municipalities. Ōshū lies in the valley of the Kitakami River. A community was established there as a fort to exterminate the aboriginal Ainu peoples

sail: …named the mainmast and the mizzenmast. In all three-masted vessels the names of the masts are foremast, mainmast and mizzenmast.

mizzonite, calcium-rich variety of the mineral scapolite

Khazʿal Khan: …instrumental in having his brother, Sheikh Mizʿal, assassinated in June 1897. He then became the ruler of Moḥammerah and the paramount chief of the Arab tribes of Khūzestān. Though nominally owing allegiance to the central government in Tehrān, the Arab sheikhdom of Moḥammerah, which differed culturally and ethnically from the…

Miʿrāj, in Islam, the ascension of the Prophet Muhammad into heaven. In this tradition, Muhammad is prepared for his meeting with God by the archangels Jibrīl (Gabriel) and Mīkāl (Michael) one evening while he is asleep in the Kaʿbah, the sacred shrine of Mecca. They open up his body and purify his

Miʿrāj: …27th day of Rajab, called Laylat al-Miʿrāj (“Night of the Ascension”).

Michael Jordan is an American former collegiate and professional basketball player widely considered to be one of the greatest all-around players in the history of the game. Jordan’s unmatched athleticism and competitive drive revolutionized the sport. He won six NBA championships with the Chicago

Christopher Wheeldon: …American in Paris (2014) and MJ: The Musical (2022), about the life of Michael Jackson.

Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), intraseasonal fluctuation of atmospheric pressure over the equatorial Indian and western Pacific oceans, named for American atmospheric scientists Roland Madden and Paul Julian in 1971. This phenomenon comes in the form of alternating cyclonic and anticyclonic

Mjollnir, in Norse mythology, the hammer of the thunder god, Thor, and the symbol of his power. Forged by dwarfs, the hammer never failed Thor; he used it as a weapon to crash down on the heads of giants and as an instrument to hallow people and things. Mjollnir was stolen by the giant Thrym, who

Mjollnir, in Norse mythology, the hammer of the thunder god, Thor, and the symbol of his power. Forged by dwarfs, the hammer never failed Thor; he used it as a weapon to crash down on the heads of giants and as an instrument to hallow people and things. Mjollnir was stolen by the giant Thrym, who

Lake Mjøsa, lake, southeastern Norway. Lying 35 miles (56 km) north of Oslo at the southern end of famed Gudbrands Valley, it is the largest lake in Norway. It is long and narrow, with a roughly north-northwest to south-southeast axis, and is a link between the Lågen River to the north and the

Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ), American musical ensemble noted for delicate percussion sonorities, innovations in jazz forms, and consistently high performance standards sustained over a long career. For most of its existence the group was composed of Milt Jackson (original name Milton Jackson; January

uMkhonto weSizwe Party, South African political party formed in 2023. It is commonly referred to as the MK Party. The party takes its name from Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”), the apartheid-era military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement and, later, political

star: Classification of spectral types: …of spectral classification, called the MK system (after the American astronomers William W. Morgan and Philip C. Keenan, who introduced it), luminosity class is assigned to the star along with the Draper spectral type. For example, the star Alpha Persei is classified as F5 Ib, which means that it falls…

MK-ULTRA was an illegal mind-control research program that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operated between 1953 and 1964. The CIA conducted experiments using high doses of LSD and other drugs, hypnosis, electroshock, and sensory deprivation on subjects who often had no idea that they were

Tanzania: Political and economic change: …under this system were held; Benjamin Mkapa of the CCM was elected president. Mkapa continued the economic reforms pursued by his predecessors.

Moscow Art Theatre, outstanding Russian theatre of theatrical naturalism founded in 1898 by two teachers of dramatic art, Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. Its purpose was to establish a theatre of new art forms, with a fresh approach to its function. Sharing similar

Georgian language: Mkhedruli, a lay alphabet originally of 40 letters (7 are now obsolete), 6 of them vowels, is the script commonly used at present in printing and handwriting. All scripts are written from left to right.

uMkhuze Game Reserve, park in northern KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. The park, established in 1912, lies to the east of the Lebombo Mountains and has an area of 95 square miles (246 square km). Vegetation varies from open bush country to thorn velds and forests of sycamore figs and giant

Mount Kazbek, mountain in northern Georgia. One of the country’s highest peaks, Mount Kazbek attains an elevation of 16,512 feet (5,033 meters). It is an extinct volcano with a double conical form and lava flows up to 1,000 feet (300 meters) thick. It is covered by icefields from which rise the

star: Classification of spectral types: …of spectral classification, called the MK system (after the American astronomers William W. Morgan and Philip C. Keenan, who introduced it), luminosity class is assigned to the star along with the Draper spectral type. For example, the star Alpha Persei is classified as F5 Ib, which means that it falls…

Giovanni Giorgi: …best known for developing the Giorgi International System of Measurement (also known as the MKSA system) in 1901. This system proposed as units of scientific measurement the metre, kilogram, second, and joule and was endorsed in 1960 by the General Conference of Weights and Measures (with the ampere instead of…

Giovanni Giorgi: …best known for developing the Giorgi International System of Measurement (also known as the MKSA system) in 1901. This system proposed as units of scientific measurement the metre, kilogram, second, and joule and was endorsed in 1960 by the General Conference of Weights and Measures (with the ampere instead of…

eastern Africa: Pressure on the southern chieftainships: …in 1879, under his son Mkwawa, a powerful state was built up; then among the Nyamwezi, where between 1870 and 1884 the warrior chief Mirambo established a powerful personal rulership; and also among the Kimbu, where, between 1870 and 1884, Nyungu and his ruga-rugas (or bands of warriors) created a…

Robin Milner: …Edinburgh, where he helped design ML (“metalanguage”), a computer programming language developed for implementing an automatic theorem solver. In 1995 Milner returned to Cambridge as head of the school’s computer laboratory. He retired in 2001.

Mladá Boleslav, city, north-central Czech Republic. It lies northeast of Prague, at the confluence of the Jizera and Klenice rivers. Occupied in 995 and founded as a city in 1334, it was a centre of the Bohemian Unitas Fratrum (“Unity of Brethren”) Protestant group in the 16th century. It has a

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian rule: …of these, Mlada Bosna (“Young Bosnia”), was especially active in Bosnian schools and universities.

heraldry: Early writers: An American scholar, L.M. Mladen, remarked of this grant and others made by Charles IV at the same time:

Board of Peace: Membership and governance: Nickolay Mladenov, a Bulgarian diplomat who previously worked for the United Nations as a mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was appointed as the Executive Board’s high representative for Gaza and was tasked with overseeing a special executive board for the administration of the Gaza Strip.…

Ratko Mladić is a Bosnian Serb military leader who commanded the Bosnian Serb army during the Bosnian conflict (1992–95) and who was widely believed to have masterminded the Srebrenica massacre, the worst episode of mass murder within Europe since World War II. Mladić was born in an isolated

South Africa: Political process: In 2005 Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was appointed deputy president—the first woman named to that position. In 2024 Mandisa Maya became the first woman to serve as chief justice, the highest judicial office in South Africa.

Mulanje, town, southern Malawi. At the southwestern foot of Mulanje Peak, it lies on the railway to Blantyre and is the area’s commercial centre. The surrounding region borders Mozambique to the south and east and Lake Chilwa to the north. Intensive agriculture produces tea, pineapples, tung, and

African cypress: With the exception of Mulanje (or Mlanje) cedar (Widdringtonia whytei), the plants are fire-adapted and release their seeds following a wildfire, the heat of which forces the cones to open.

mycoplasma: …been used to denote any species in the class mollicutes or any genus in the order Mycoplasmatales.

Major League Baseball (MLB), North American professional baseball organization that was formed in 1903 with the merger of the two U.S. professional baseball leagues—the National League (NL) and the American League (AL). The NL and the AL acted as independent organizations from their founding in the

Marvin Miller: …who, as head of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Players Association, drove successful efforts to improve ballplayers’ labour rights, revolutionizing the business of professional sports as a result.

capacitor dielectric and piezoelectric ceramics: Disk, multilayer, and tubular capacitors: Multilayer capacitors (MLCs) overcome this problem by interleaving dielectric and electrode layers (see Figure 2). The electrode layers are usually palladium or a palladium-silver alloy. These metals have a melting point that is higher than the sintering temperature of the ceramic, allowing the two materials…

metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), rare inherited metabolic disease in which the lack of a key enzyme causes loss of the protective myelin sheath from the white matter of the brain, resulting in psychological disturbances, mental deterioration, and sensory and motor defects. A number of genetic

mlechchha, people of foreign extraction in ancient India. A Sanskrit term, mlechchha was used by the Vedic peoples much as the ancient Greeks used barbaros, originally to indicate the uncouth and incomprehensible speech of foreigners and then extended to their unfamiliar behaviour. Mlechchhas were

mlechchha, people of foreign extraction in ancient India. A Sanskrit term, mlechchha was used by the Vedic peoples much as the ancient Greeks used barbaros, originally to indicate the uncouth and incomprehensible speech of foreigners and then extended to their unfamiliar behaviour. Mlechchhas were

praise song, one of the most widely used poetic forms in Africa; a series of laudatory epithets applied to gods, men, animals, plants, and towns that capture the essence of the object being praised. Professional bards, who may be both praise singers to a chief and court historians of their tribe,

French literature: Feminist writers: …de Libération des Femmes (MLF; Movement for the Liberation of Women) developed within the radical thinking and action that marked 1968 and produced feminist extensions of the work of Lacan, Derrida, and Deleuze. Combining the disciplines of literary theory and psychology to explore language as an instrument for radical change,…

nuclear reactor: Enrichment: …known generically as MLIS (molecular laser isotope separation)—or commercially as SILEX (separation of isotopes by laser excitation)—gaseous UF6 is exposed to high-powered lasers tuned to the correct frequencies to cause the molecules containing 235U (but not 238U) to lose electrons. In this (ionized) form, the 235U-containing molecules are separated…

mademoiselle, the French equivalent of “Miss,” referring to an unmarried female. Etymologically, it means “my (young) lady” (ma demoiselle). As an honorific title in the French royal court, it came to be used (without the adjunction of a proper name) to refer to or address the daughter of the

mycoplasma: …been used to denote any species in the class mollicutes or any genus in the order Mycoplasmatales.

Karonga: …stronghold of the Swahili-Arab trader Mlozi about 1880. The modern town, however, was founded with the opening of a British trading post there in 1883. Following a protracted conflict between Mlozi and British interests in the area, British explorer and colonial administrator Sir Harry Johnston took possession of the post…

Eddie Fenech Adami: …of rule by the socialist Malta Labour Party, in the 1987 elections the Nationalist Party won a majority in the parliament, and on May 12 Fenech Adami became prime minister. He attempted to eliminate the polarization that divided Malta, initiate a policy of open government, and create a program of…

Mauritius: Political process and security: …parties dominate Mauritian politics: the Mauritius Labour Party (MLP; Parti Travailliste [PTr]), the Mauritian Militant Movement (Mouvement Militant Mauricien; MMM), and the Militant Socialist Movement (Mouvement Socialiste Militant; MSM). The MLP and the MSM generally compete for the dominant Hindu vote, although they both have supporters in all communities. The…

Central African Republic: Authoritarian rule under Kolingba: …as the leader of the Central African People’s Liberation Movement (Mouvement pour la Libération du Peuple Centrafricain; MLPC).

nuclear reactor: Fuel types: In a sodium-cooled fast reactor, commonly called a liquid-metal reactor (LMR), the fuel consists of uranium dioxide or uranium-plutonium dioxide pellets (French design) or of uranium-plutonium-zirconium metal alloy pins (U.S. design) in steel cladding.