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auxiliary feedwater

Energy; Nuclear energy

Backup water supply used during nuclear plant startup and shutdown to supply water to the steam generators during accident conditions for removing decay heat from the reactor.

boiling-water reactor (BWR)

Energy; Nuclear energy

A common nuclear power reactor design in which water flows upward through the core, where it is heated by fission and allowed to boil in the reactor vessel. The resulting steam ...

chemical recombination

Energy; Nuclear energy

Following an ionization event, the positively and negatively charged ion pairs may or may not realign themselves to form the same chemical substance they formed before ionization. ...

foreign assignee program

Energy; Nuclear energy

An on-the-job training program, sponsored by the NRC for assignees from other countries, usually under bilateral information exchange arrangements with their respective regulatory ...

force-on-force (FOF)

Energy; Nuclear energy

Inspections designed to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of a licensee's security force and ability to defend a nuclear power plant and other nuclear facilities against a ...

forced outage

Energy; Nuclear energy

The shutdown of a generating unit, transmission line, or other facility for emergency reasons, or a condition in which the equipment is unavailable as a result of an unanticipated ...

flux

Energy; Nuclear energy

A term applied to the amount of some type of particle (neutrons, alpha particles, etc. ) or energy (photons, heat, etc. ) crossing a unit area per unit time. The unit of flux is ...