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  • Temelín Nuclear Power Plant, South Bohemia, Czech Republic
    nuclear reactor
    / Advanced gas-cooled reactor

    …AGR, fuel pins clad in Zircaloy (a trademark for alloys of zirconium having low percentages of chromium, nickel, iron, and tin) and loaded with approximately 2 percent enriched uranium dioxide are placed into zirconium-alloy channels that pierce a graphite moderator block. This design utilizes fast neutron energies and is therefore…

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    …AGR, fuel pins clad in Zircaloy (a trademark for alloys of zirconium having low percentages of chromium, nickel, iron, and tin) and loaded with approximately 2 percent enriched uranium dioxide are placed into zirconium-alloy channels that pierce a graphite moderator block. This design utilizes fast neutron energies and is therefore…

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