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Navid Badie

Jun 24, 2026

5:21
Quirky, not so much.
5:24
But every reactor has its special features.
5:30
So let's look at this diagram you have put up.
5:40
this is a pressurized water reactor.
5:43
So it relies on water that is pressurized so that it can not boil up to high temperatures, up to relatively high temperatures.
5:54
So in that sense, it is similar to the pressurized light water reactors that are used in many countries around the world.
6:03
The distinction is the use of heavy water as both the reactor coolant and the moderator.

27 MINS LATER

32:44
So this is in the pressure tubes and in the circuits going up to the pumps and everything else.

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