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Heavy water reactor

Heavy water reactor

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Heavy-water reactor.

  1. Schematic of the CANDU design of commercial heavy water reactors
  2. Chicago Pile-3, the world's first heavy water reactor, built in 1943 for the Manhattan Project
  3. An early patent drawing for a heavy water reactor, by Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard
  4. Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, one of the largest CANDU plants in Canada
  5. Kaiga Generating Station, one of the largest IPHWR plants in India