advanced gas-cooled reactor

engineering
Also known as: AGR

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  • Temelín Nuclear Power Plant, South Bohemia, Czech Republic
    In nuclear reactor: Advanced gas-cooled reactor

    The advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) was developed in the United Kingdom as the successor to reactors of the Calder Hall class, which combined plutonium production and power generation. Calder Hall, the first nuclear station to feed an appreciable amount of power into…

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