High impact information on Nuclear Reactors

• Chromosome aberrations induced in human lymphocytes by U-235 fission neutrons: I. Irradiation of human blood samples in the "dry cell" of the TRIGA Mark II nuclear reactor [1].
• For administration to a patient, the holmium-loaded microspheres have to be irradiated in a nuclear reactor to become radioactive [2].
• Neptunium is a transuranium element, produced in tonne quantities in nuclear reactors [3].
• The Los Alamos code MCNP4A (Monte Carlo N-Particle version 4A) is currently used to simulate a variety of problems ranging from nuclear reactor analysis to boron neutron capture therapy [4].
• The ensuing Cold War spawned the entirely new field of polyhedral borane chemistry, rapid advances in nuclear reactor technology and a corresponding increase in the number to reactors potentially available for BNCT [5].

Biological context of Nuclear Reactors

• In streams into which the cooling water of a nuclear reactor is released all conditions are found already for a long turnover and cycling of artificial tritium in living organisms as well as the conditions for a favourable transport of tritium by food chains to man [6].

Associations of Nuclear Reactors with chemical compounds

• The "Little-Boy" replica (LBR), assembled at Los Alamos as a controlled nuclear reactor for detailed physical dosimetry, was used [7].
• In this study, we are concerned with the 237 isotope of neptunium (237Np), which is a by-product of uranium in nuclear reactors [8].
• The Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident, which resulted in widespread contamination with radiocaesium, led to studies of the use of Prussian Blue (PB) compounds as a countermeasure to reduce the caesium-137 and caesium-134 content of animal products [9].
• Strontium-90 ((90)Sr) is a radionuclide characteristic of fallout from nuclear reactor accidents and nuclear weapons testing [10].
• Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is an experimental treatment modality which depends on a sufficient cellular uptake of Boron ((10)B) followed by an exposure to a thermal neutron beam from a nuclear reactor [11].

Gene context of Nuclear Reactors

• Radiation exposure from the Big Rock Point nuclear reactor in Charlevoix County, Michigan was investigated by studying vital rates for that county and nearby counties in comparison with other matching counties, for periods before and after the reactor began operation [12].
• Numerical evaluation of the production of radionuclides in a nuclear reactor (Part I) [13].
• 110mAg, as a radionuclide of corrosion products in water-cooled nuclear reactors, was detected in the liquid effluents of Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station (GNPS) of Daya Bay under normal operation conditions [14].

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