Nuclear Reactors

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Devices containing fissionable material in sufficient quantity and so arranged as to be capable of maintaining a controlled, self-sustaining NUCLEAR FISSION chain reaction. They are also known as atomic piles, atomic reactors, fission reactors, and nuclear piles, although such names are deprecated. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)

Descriptor ID

D009688

MeSH Number(s)

E07.710.600

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Nuclear Reactors

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Equipment and Supplies [E07]
Radiation Equipment and Supplies [E07.710]
Nuclear Reactors [E07.710.600]

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Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear Power Plants

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	0	1	1
2021	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Nuclear Reactors" by people in Profiles.

Fission reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl. Science. 2021 05 14; 372(6543):670.

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Iran's disaster risk: now is the time for community-based public health preparedness. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2013 Oct; 28(5):421-2.

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The limits to our capacity: reflections on resiliency, community engagement, and recovery in 21st-century crises. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2011 Sep; 5 Suppl 2:S176-81.

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Chernobyl and the KI controversy in the United States. Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Mar; 4(3):117.

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Estimation of thyroid radiation doses for the hanford thyroid disease study: results and implications for statistical power of the epidemiological analyses. Health Phys. 2004 Jul; 87(1):15-32.

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Modelling 99Tc concentrations in Fucus vesiculosus from the north-east Irish Sea. J Environ Radioact. 2004; 77(2):159-73.

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Fission reactor neutron sources for neutron capture therapy--a critical review. J Neurooncol. 2003 Mar-Apr; 62(1-2):7-17.

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Improvement of the prompt-gamma neutron activation facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Phys Med Biol. 1998 Feb; 43(2):339-49.

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Risk of acute childhood leukaemia in Sweden after the Chernobyl reactor accident. Swedish Child Leukaemia Group. BMJ. 1994 Jul 16; 309(6948):154-7.

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Soviet nuclear mishaps pre-Chernobyl. Lancet. 1993 Feb 06; 341(8841):346.

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