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Converting Russian plutonium‐production reactors to civilian use
1994
Science and Global Security
The first Soviet reactor designed to produce weapon-grade began operation in Chelyabinsk in June of 1948. This single-purpose, graphite-moderated, singlepass reactor was a water-cooled reactor. Its cooling water was dumped directly into a lake at roughly 100°C. Several more reactors of this type were subsequently constructed. In 1958, a reactor of a new type began operation in Tomsk-7. A graphitemoderated production reactor was built to operate in dual-purpose mode, producing both weapons-grade
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