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Apparently considering HLW separated from reprocessing: first-generation gas-graphite reactors produced about 50 cubic metres per billion kilowatt-hours (TWh).
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Spain's Vandellos-1, a 480 MWe gas-graphite reactor, was closed down in 1990 after 18 years of operation, due to a turbine fire which made the plant uneconomic to repair.
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Canada favored heavy water because it had the hydroelectric wherewithal to make it, and the British were experimenting with gas-graphite.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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Yongbyon has a thirty-megawatt facility on the model of a 1950s British gas-graphite reactor known as the Calder Hall.
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Experts say light water reactors are more resistant to proliferation than gas-graphite types such as the North's Yongbyon reactor, but they can also be used to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.
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Experts say light water reactors are more resistant to proliferation than gas-graphite types such as the North's Yongbyon reactor, but they can also be used to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.
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As part of a six-nation pact, the North in 2008 shut down an aging gas-graphite reactor that had produced plutonium for its weapons drive.
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As part of a six-nation pact, the North in 2008 shut down an ageing gas-graphite reactor that had produced plutonium for its weapons drive.
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