{"id":1420,"date":"2017-06-12T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2017-06-18T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T09:20:21","slug":"pressurized-heavy-water-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pressurized-heavy-water-reactor\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A pressurized heavy-water reactor\u00a0is a\u00a0nuclear reactor, commonly using unenriched\u00a0natural uranium\u00a0as its fuel that uses\u00a0heavy water\u00a0(deuterium oxide\u00a0D<sub>2<\/sub>O) as its\u00a0coolant\u00a0and\u00a0neutron moderator.<\/li>\n<li>The heavy water coolant is kept under pressure, allowing it to be heated to higher temperatures without boiling, much as in a pressurized water reactor.<\/li>\n<li>While heavy water is significantly more expensive than ordinary light water, it creates greatly enhanced neutron economy, allowing the reactor to operate without\u00a0fuel-enrichment facilities\u00a0(offsetting the additional\u00a0expense\u00a0of the heavy water) and enhancing the ability of the reactor to make use of alternate\u00a0fuel cycles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR)? A pressurized heavy-water reactor\u00a0is a\u00a0nuclear reactor, commonly using unenriched\u00a0natural uranium\u00a0as its fuel that uses\u00a0heavy water\u00a0(deuterium oxide\u00a0D2O) as its\u00a0coolant\u00a0and\u00a0neutron moderator. The heavy water coolant is kept under pressure, allowing it to be heated to higher temperatures without boiling, much as in a pressurized water reactor. While heavy water is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pressurized-heavy-water-reactor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kb","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}