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CANDU is the Canadian engineered and Canadian produced nuclear power reactor.
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Some years ago, the Canadian government began a program for developing and selling nuclear power reactors, called CANDU reactors.
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There is a Canadian design, called "CANDU", which requires heavy water as a moderator, but uses refined but unenriched uranium as a fuel.
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There is a Canadian design, called "CANDU", which requires heavy water as a moderator, but uses refined but unenriched uranium as a fuel.
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There is a Canadian design, called "CANDU", which requires heavy water as a moderator, but uses refined but unenriched uranium as a fuel.
The New Republic - All Feed J. Peter Scoblic 2010
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There is a Canadian design, called "CANDU", which requires heavy water as a moderator, but uses refined but unenriched uranium as a fuel.
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The CANDU and RBMK types have pressure tubes (rather than a pressure vessel enclosing the reactor core) and can be refuelled under load by disconnecting individual pressure tubes.
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The PHWR reactor design has been developed since the 1950s in Canada as the CANDU (CANada Deuterium Uranium), and more recently also in India.
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Some are evolutionary from the PWR, BWR and CANDU designs, some are more radical departures.
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Nuclear power (such as the CANDU reactor) has recently been installed in China for less than this, so the numbers are reasonable.
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