Nuclear power plantThermal power station where the heat source is a nuclear reactorFrom top, left to right Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Plant in FranceObninsk, the world's first nuclear power plantCalder Hall, the first large-scale plantShippingport Atomic Power Station, the US' first plantKashiwazaki-Kariwa, formerly the world's largest plantTaishan, containing the world's largest individual reactor coresVogtle, the only US plant with reactors built in the 21st centuryThe Chernobyl sarcophagus, built to contain the effects of the 1986 disasterA nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.
CANDU reactorThe CANDU (Canada deuterium uranium) is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power. The acronym refers to its deuterium oxide (heavy water) moderator and its use of (originally, natural) uranium fuel. CANDU reactors were first developed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, Canadian General Electric, and other companies.
Córdoba, ArgentinaCórdoba (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkoɾðoβa]) is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about 700 km (435 mi) northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province and the second-most populous city in Argentina after Buenos Aires, with about 1.6 million urban inhabitants according to the 2020 census.
Heavy waterForm of waterNames IUPAC name(H2)WaterOther names Deuterium oxideWater-d2Dideuterium monoxideDeuterated waterIdentifiers CAS Number7789-20-03D model (JSmol)Interactive imageChEBICHEBI:41981ChEMBLChEMBL1232306ChemSpider23004ECHA InfoCard100.029.226EC Number232-148-9Gmelin Reference97 KEGGD03703MeSHDeuterium+OxidePubChemCID24602RTECS numberZC0230000UNIIJ65BV539M3CompTox Dashboard(EPA)DTXSID4051243InChIInChI=1S/H2O/h1H2/i/hD2Key: XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-ZSJDYOACSA-NSMILES[2H]O[2H]Properties Chemical formulaD2O Molar mass20.0276 g·mol Appearance Colorless liquid OdorOdorless Density1.107 g mL Melting point3.82 °C; 38.88 °F; 276.97 K Boiling point101.4 °C (214.5 °F; 374.5 K) Solubility in waterMiscible log P−1.38 Refractive index (nD)1.328 Viscosity1.25 mPa s (at 20 °C) Dipole moment1.87 D Hazards NFPA 704 (fire diamond) 100Related compounds Related compoundsDeuterium fluorideNitrogen trideuterideTetradeuteromethaneExcept where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).N ( ?)
Embalse, ArgentinaEmbalse is a city in the center-west of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, located within the Calamuchita Valley, 119 km south-southwest from Córdoba City. The municipality has 15,000 inhabitants as per the 2001 census[INDEC], though unofficial counts including the neighboring areas give a population of over 30,000, which grows by several thousands during the tourist high season. The word embalse means "reservoir" (i. e. artificial lake) in Spanish.
ArgentinaArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the far south of South America. It covers an area of 2,780,085 km2 (1,073,397 mi2), making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
Spanish languageSpanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It originated in the Kingdom of Castile, a historical kingdom in north-central Spain. Today, it is a global language with 519 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 636 million speakers total, including second-language speakers.Natural uraniumNatural uranium (NU or Unat) is uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature. It contains 0.711% uranium-235, 99.284% uranium-238, and a trace of uranium-234 by weight (0.0055%). Approximately 2.2% of its radioactivity comes from uranium-235, 48.6% from uranium-238, and 49.2% from uranium-234. Natural uranium can be used to fuel both low- and high-power nuclear reactors.
Córdoba Province, ArgentinaCórdoba (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkoɾðoβa]) is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country. Its neighboring provinces are (clockwise from the north) Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, La Pampa, San Luis, La Rioja, and Catamarca. Together with Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, the province is part of the economic and political association known as the Center Region.
WattThe watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m⋅s. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottishinventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who in 1776 improved the Newcomen engine with his own steam engine, which became fundamental for the Industrial Revolution.
ReservoirA reservoir (; from French) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to storefresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, excavating, or building any number of retaining walls or levees to enclose any area to store water.
Pressurized heavy-water reactorA pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR) is a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water (deuterium oxide D2O) as its coolant and neutron moderator. PHWRs frequently use natural uranium as fuel, but sometimes also use very low enriched uranium. The heavy water coolant is kept under pressure to avoid boiling, allowing it to reach higher temperature (mostly) without forming steam bubbles, exactly as for a pressurized water reactor (PWR).*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.