heavy-water reactor
Britishnoun
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Iran also reconfigured a heavy-water reactor so it couldn’t produce plutonium and agreed to convert its Fordo enrichment site - dug deep into a mountainside - into a research center.
From Washington Times • May 8, 2018
In return, Tehran limited its ability to enrich uranium, reconfigured a heavy-water reactor to block it from producing plutonium, reduced its uranium stockpile, and agreed to international inspections and monitoring.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2018
This has included shipping 25,000 pounds of enriched uranium to Russia, converting a heavy-water reactor to produce less plutonium, and taking off line thousands of centrifuge machines used to produce nuclear fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2016
Also as part of the preparatory steps, Iran is in the process of removing centrifuges and says it has dismantled its heavy-water reactor Arak.
From US News • Jan. 15, 2016
At home in Berkeley, he spent a weekend scouting locations for a heavy-water reactor, convinced that he was on the verge of securing the project as an adjunct to the Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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