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High Flux Isotope Reactor Facility
The reactor produces californium-151 and other transuranium isotopes for research, industrial, and medical applications. A description of the reactor and experimental facilities is given. For ...
Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor
Diagram and brief notes on a small power reactor from General Electric and the Argonne National Laboratory.
Nuclear Reactor
Ideas involving electricity generation by nuclear energy. Has a reactor simulation and quiz.
Hyperphysics - Pressurized Water Reactor
Description and diagram of pressurized water reactor with good links to other sites.
Hyperphysics - Boiling Water Reactor
Description and diagram of boiling water reactor.
Todd's Atomic Home Page
A site of useful links focusing on nuclear computing, nuclear engineering, fusion, reactors, weapons and waste issues
Frank Laboratory of Nuclear Physics
Home website for the JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) containing links to reference notes, reactors and accelerators in Russia.
The World of Nuclear Energy
An introduction to nuclear medicine, nuclear reactors, nuclear physics, nuclear power, nuclear waste and war. Includes movie clips of the effects of nuclear detonation.
Fission and Fusion
Part of a nuclear reactor tour, this site gives a simplified explanation of nuclear energy.
Eugene Paul Wigner
Eugene Paul Wigner (1901 - 1995) during his lifetime he was a major player in the development of the atomic bomb, the design of commercial nuclear reactors and the progress of nuclear science in ...


