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The history of the development of heavy-water nuclear reactors and the assoiated, installations in the USSR and Russia is presented. Research reactors constructed at the ITEP and under the scientific direction of the ITEP in other countires (Yugoslavia), industrial heavy-water nuclear reactors, and the Maket zero-power reactor are described. Heavy-water gas-cooled reactors for nuclear power plants are discussed in detail: the nuclear power plant with an A-1 reactor, constructed in Czechoslovakia, and the design of maximum-safety nuclear power plant. Electronuclear neutron generators and subcritical nuclear reactors and the possibility of using the for burning weapons plutonium are examined. The electronuclear neutron generator developed at the ITEP is described.
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State Science Center of the Russian Federation—Institute of Theoetical and Experimental Physics. Translated from Atomanaya Énergiya, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 310–321, April, 1999.
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Loffe, B.L., Shvedov, O.V. Heavy water reactors and nuclear power plants in the USSR and Russia: Past, present, and future. At Energy 86, 295–304 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02673145
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02673145