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Core catcher

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The Russian physicist who helped design the Russian core-catcher model during the Chernobyl crisis, Leonid Bolshov, has stressed that the experience of Chernobyl has encouraged Russia to create reactors with core-catcher safety devices in new nuclear plants.
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A core catcher is made from a special thermally resistant concrete ceramic to prevent nuclear core material from melting through the core catcher; it also has a cooling mechanism to cool down the core material. The core catcher of the
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based on the VVER-1000 design, was envisaged to be the first type of nuclear plant to have a core catcher directly underneath the reactor. Thus, in early 2011, the two reactors of the Chinese
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were the only working nuclear reactors with this type of core catchers.
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Examples of reactor types with core catchers, besides the EPR, are:
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IAEA-Dokument: Status of Fast Breeder Reactor Development in Germany
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is a device provided to catch the molten core material (
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Device used to capture fuel debris in a nuclear meltdown
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Areva Brochure: EPR - reference number:G-61-V1-07-GER
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Under The Hood With Duncan Williams — Core Catching
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Index


European Pressurized Reactor
corium
nuclear meltdown
containment building
European Pressurized Reactor
SNR-300
AES-91
VVER-1000/428
VVER-1200
SWR1000
ESBWR
BWR
ABWR
APWR
PWR
Atmea I
ACPR-1000
IPWR-900
AES-91
Atomstroyexport
Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant
Rosatom
Rooppur 1 Nuclear Power Plant
Siempelkamp: Core Catcher - Cooling Structures
IAEA-Dokument: Status of Fast Breeder Reactor Development in Germany
"Archived copy"
the original
cite web
link

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