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Uranium. There is some interest in using thorium in the future. Thorium cannot be used directly as fuel in a reactor as it does not fission, it requires a fast breeder reactor to convert it to Uranium-233 which does fission.
1. Dhruva reactor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhruva_reactor This reactor is a larger version of CIRUS and can produce up to 25 KG of plutonium per year. No statement has been made about shutting down this reactor, presumably India feels it is not obliged to because unlike CIRUS it was designed and built using Indian resources. 2. CIRUS reactor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIRUS_reactor. The CIRUS design is based on Canada's Chalk River reactor and was built with Canadian help. India has announced that this reactor will be shutdown in 2010 in accordance with the terms of the recent US-India nuclear deal. CIRUS can produce up to 10 kg of plutonium in a year. 3. KAMINI reactor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAMINI 4. APSARA reactor http://www.barc.ernet.in/webpages/about/mile.htm
The nuclear reactor wasn't invented in India. Nuclear power was being researched in England, Germany, Austria, Russia and the USA during the 1930s and 1940s. Idaho was the location of the first electricity generation using a nuclear reactor in 1951 with Russia operating the first to supply electricity to a grid. India's entry to nuclear power generation followed many years after the intial development work has been completed.
In a pressurised nuclear reactor the temperature is very high, which cn be accepted as a point for this.
The advantage is mainly that more active fuel can be created than is used, so getting 'something for nothing'. However experimental reactors such as the sodium cooled fast reactor at Dounreay in Scotland have proved very difficult in practice, with material problems, and as far as I know such experiments are in abeyance at the moment.
Fear that Nazi Germany would make one first and win WW2 using it. It was not until after the end of the war that it was discovered that the German nuclear program was only a very low priority program directed mostly at reactor development.
Moderators are not used in a breeder reactor because their primary purpose is to slow down neutrons to increase the likelihood of fission events in a thermal reactor. In a breeder reactor, fast neutrons are required to convert non-fissile uranium-238 into fissile plutonium-239, so using a moderator would hinder this process.
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The runaway reactor at Chernobyl went subcritical by prompt dispersal.
If your reactor is on fire, sealing it off would be a good idea.
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Using an inverter with a reactor can enhance the performance and reliability of the power system by reducing harmonics, protecting equipment from voltage spikes, and improving power quality. The reactor helps to filter out unwanted noise and disturbances in the electrical system, ensuring stable and efficient operation of the inverter.