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Cluster: Nuclear technology Cluster: Nuclear Technology
A cluster of topics related to nuclear technology
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Nuclear Technology utilizes the energy and radiation produced by nuclear reactions for applications in many fields including power, medicine, and defense.
Fundamental Science
A list of fundamental science topics related to nuclear technology.
- Atomic Nucleus
- Nuclear Fission
- Nuclear Fusion
- Alpha Radiation
- Beta Radiation
- Gamma Radiation
- Neutron Radiation
- Electron Capture
- Nuclear Material
- Radiation Protection
- Radioluminescence
Applications
A list of nuclear technology applications and topics related to them.
Nuclear Power
Producing controlled chain reactions of nuclear interactions to generate electricity in a nuclear power plant.
- Nuclear Reactor
- Nuclear Fuel
- Advanced Fission Reactor Designs
- Nuclear Fusion
- Hybrid Nuclear Fusion-Fission
- Thorium-based Nuclear Power
- Nuclear Waste Processing
Nuclear Medicine & Radiology
The use of radiation produced by nuclear decay for medical diagnosis and treatment.
- Computed Tomography (CT)
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
- Radiotherapy
- Brachytherapy
- Proton Therapy
- Heavy Ion Therapy
- Scintigraphy
- Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)
Defence
Using nuclear reactions to create weaponry or the propulsion of military vehicles.
Space
Propulsion and power supply for space missions.
Industrial
Nuclear technology is used in a range of industrial processes.
- Industrial Radiography
- Level Indicator Gauges
- Thickness Gauges
- Radioactive Tracers
- Nuclear Well-Logging
- Sterilization
Commercial
Commercial products that use nuclear technology.
- Betavoltaic Device s
- Smoke Detectors
Radiation Detectors
- Cloud Chamber
- Bubble Chamber
- Ionization Chamber
- Proportional Counter
- Geiger–Müller tube
- Calorimeter
- Microchannel Plate (MCP)
- Cherenkov Detector
- Time-of-Flight Detector
Scintillators
- Sodium Iodide
- Cesium Iodide
Semiconductor
- Silicon PIN Diodes
- Germanium Detector
- Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) Detector
Neutron Detectors
- Coated Semiconductor Detectors
Companies
List of companies offering services or products in nuclear technology
Nuclear Reactor Engineering
- TerraPower
- Terrestrial Energy
- NuScale Power
- Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC
- DBD Limited
- LeadCold
- Moltex Energy
- U-Battery Developments Ltd
- Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC)
- Seaborg Technologies
- X-Energy, LLC
- Gen4 Energy
- ThorCon
- Holtec International
- Elysium Industries
- Flibe Energy
- Babcock & Wilcox
- Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd
- Transatomic Power
- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
- Westinghouse Electric Company
- OKB Gidropress
- OKBM Afrikantov
- Atomenergomash
- Atommash
- OMZ
- Atomstroyexport
- KEPCO E&C
- Rolls Royce
- Ansaldo Nucleare
- Bhavini
- Siemens
- Bouyges Construction
- Škoda Works
- Framatome
- General Atomics
- Bechtel Corporation
- Oklo
Uranium Mining
- BHP Billiton
- Energy Resources of Australia
- Heathgate Resources
- Paladin Energy
- Cameco
- Hathor Exploration
- Star Uranium
- United Uranium
- Uranium One
- Denison Mines
- China Nuclear International Uranium Corporation
- Uranium Corporation of India
- Rössing
- ARMZ Uranium Holding
- Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Combinat
Nuclear Fuel / Waste / Decommissioning
- Sequoyah Fuels Corporation
- Nuclear Fuel Services
- Westinghouse Electric Company
- Urenco Group
- TVEL
- Tekhsnabexport
- Korea Nuclear Fuel
- Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited
- Nuclear Fuel Complex
- Nukem Energy
- Franco-Belge de Fabrication du Combustible
- EnergySolutions
- Sellafield Ltd
- Magnox Ltd
- GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service
- Nukem Technologies
- Orano
- Deep Isolation
- NAC International Inc
Electricity Generation
- Constellation
- UniStar Nuclear Energy
- Southern Company
- South Carolina Electric and Gas Company
- NRG Energy
- Duke Energy
- Dominion Resources
- Energoatom
- Horizon Nuclear Power
- Alpiq
- BKW FMB Energie
- Resun AG
- Vattenfall
- OKG AB
- Sydkraft Nuclear
- Iberdrola
- Endesa
- Eskom
- GEN Energija
- Slovenske Elektrarne
- Rosenergoatom
- Inter RAO
- Nuclearelectrica
- Essent
- Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
- Kansai Electric Power Company
- Tokyo Electric Power Co.
- Electric Power Development Company
- Enel
- National Thermal Power Corporation
- Nuclear Power Corporation of India
- RWE
- EnBW
- PreussenElektra GmbH
- Électricité de France, EDF
- Teollisuuden Voima
- Fennovoima
- Fortum
- ČEZ Group
- China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group
- Ontario Power Generation
- New Brunswick Power
- Bruce Power
- Bulgarian Energy Holding
- Eletronuclear
- Electrabel
Nuclear Fusion
- General Fusion
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems
- Tokamak Energy
- AGNI Energy
- First Light Fusion
- Helion Energy
- TAE Technologies
- CTFusion
- Proton Scientific
- MIFTI Inc.
- Compact Fusion Systems
- LPPFusion
- HyperJet Fusion Corporation
- Horne Technologies
- Princeton Satellite Systems
- Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2)
- EMC2 Fusion Development Corporation
- FUSE Energy Technologies
- HelicitySpace
- Type One Energy Group
- Renaissance Fusion
- Zap Energy
- Strong Atomics
- Breakthrough Fusion International Corporation
- ENN Group
- General Atomics
- HB11 Energy
- Hope Innovations Inc.
- Innoven Energy
- Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
- Marvel Fusion
Hybrid Fusion-Fission
Defence
- Technicatome
- Rolls Royce
- Bechtel Corporation
Space
Nuclear Medicine & Radiology
- Cardinal Health
- Digirad Corporation
- GE Healthcare
- Lantheus Medical Imaging
- Philips Healthcare
- Canon Medical Systems Corporation
- Fujifilm Healthcare
- Hitachi Medical
- Siemens Healthineers
- Samsung Medison
- Shimadzu
- AGFA HealthCare
- Carestream Health
Other
Research Projects & Groups
List of Nuclear Technology research projects and groups.
Fusion Power
Fields such as fusion energy require large scale research projects too big for a single company involving significant public funding.
- Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak (START) - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
- Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
- MAST Upgrade - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
- Joint European Torus (JET) - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
- Axially Symmetric Divertor Experiment (ASDEX) - Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics
- ASDEX Upgrade - Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics
- Alcator - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) - Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- COMPASS (COMPact ASSembly) Tokamak - Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Caltech Spheromak Experiment - California Institute of Technology
- EAST - Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- ETE (Experimento Tokamak Esférico) - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
- FTU (Frascati Tokamak Upgrade) - ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development)
- FuZE (Fusion Z-Pinch Experiment) - University of Washington
- GDT Device - Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
- GEKKO XII - Osaka University, Institute of Laser Engineering
- HFRC (HUST FRC) - Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- HIAF (High Intensity heavy ion Accelerator Facility) - Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- HIST (Helicity Injected Spherical Torus) - University of Hyogo
- HIT - University of Washington
- HL-2A / HL-2M - SWIP (Southwestern Institute of Physics)
- He Ion Source & DiFU Dual-Beam Facility - Ruđer Bošković Institute
- ISTTOK (Instituto Superior Técnico TOKamak) - Instituto Superior Técnico
- J-TEXT - Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- JT-60U - JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency's) Naka Fusion Institute
- Julong-1 Facility (aka PTS) - IFP (Intstitue of Fluid Physics)
- KMAX (Keda Mirror with AXisymmetricity) - USTC (University of Science and Technology China)
- KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) - National Fusion Research Institute
- KTX (Keda Torus eXperiment) - USTC (University of Science and Technology China)
- LDX (Levitated Dipole Experiment) - MIT
- LULI (Le Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses) - Ecole Polytechnique
- MAGPIE - Imperial College London
- MST (Madison Symmetric Torus) - University of Wisconsin Madison
- Magnum-PSI - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
- Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory - Fusion Energy Sciences
- University of Washington’s William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Fusion Propulsion
- The University of Alabama in Huntsville - Propulsion Research Center
Hybrid Fusion-Fission
- University of Texas at Austin - Institute for Fusion Studies
Nuclear Medicine & Radiology
- UCL - Institute of Nuclear Medicine
- The Institute of Cancer Research
- National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Medical Physics
- University of Toronto - Department of Medical Imaging
- Stanford - Nuclear Medicine Research Lab (NMRL)
- John Hopkins Medicine - Radiology and Radiological Science
- University of California, San Francisco - Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
- University of Virginia - Radiology and Medical Imaging
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra (UMC)
Defence
Other Nuclear Technology Related Groups & Organisations
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- World Nuclear Association
- American Nuclear Society
- American Fusion Project
- Fusion Industry Association
Miscellaneous
List of topics linked to nuclear technology.
Notable People
List of people who made significant contributions to nuclear technology or nuclear physics.
Further reading
Title
Author
Link
Type
Date
Nuclear Power Today | Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association
Web
Updated February 2020
The History of Nuclear Energy
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy
Web
The Number of Fusion Energy Startups is Growing Fast - Here's Why
Sam Wurzel
Web
February 7th, 2020
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Title
Date
Link
Is Nuclear Fusion The Answer To Clean Energy?
Oct 29, 2019
Mini-Nuclear Reactors Are Coming, and They Could Reinvent the Energy Industry
Jul 21, 2019
NASA's New Space Reactor Is Powered by Nuclear Fission
Jun 30, 2019
Edits made to:
Description (-49 characters)
Article (-9307 characters)
Further reading (-3 rows) (-14 cells) (-571 characters)
Documentaries, videos and podcasts (-4 rows) (-12 cells) (-435 characters)
Cluster: Nuclear Technology Cluster: Nuclear technology
A cluster of topics related to nuclear technology
Article
Nuclear Technology utilizes the energy and radiation produced by nuclear reactions for applications in many fields including power, medicine, and defense.
Fundamental Science
A list of fundamental science topics related to nuclear technology.
- Atomic Nucleus
- Nuclear Fission
- Nuclear Fusion
- Alpha Radiation
- Beta Radiation
- Gamma Radiation
- Neutron Radiation
- Electron Capture
- Nuclear Material
- Radiation Protection
- Radioluminescence
Applications
A list of nuclear technology applications and topics related to them.
Nuclear Power
Producing controlled chain reactions of nuclear interactions to generate electricity in a nuclear power plant.
- Nuclear Reactor
- Nuclear Fuel
- Advanced Fission Reactor Designs
- Nuclear Fusion
- Hybrid Nuclear Fusion-Fission
- Thorium-based Nuclear Power
- Nuclear Waste Processing
Nuclear Medicine & Radiology
The use of radiation produced by nuclear decay for medical diagnosis and treatment.
- Computed Tomography (CT)
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
- Radiotherapy
- Brachytherapy
- Proton Therapy
- Heavy Ion Therapy
- Scintigraphy
- Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)
Defence
Using nuclear reactions to create weaponry or the propulsion of military vehicles.
Space
Propulsion and power supply for space missions.
Industrial
Nuclear technology is used in a range of industrial processes.
- Industrial Radiography
- Level Indicator Gauges
- Thickness Gauges
- Radioactive Tracers
- Nuclear Well-Logging
- Sterilization
Commercial
Commercial products that use nuclear technology.
- Betavoltaic Device s
- Smoke Detectors
Radiation Detectors
- Cloud Chamber
- Bubble Chamber
- Ionization Chamber
- Proportional Counter
- Geiger–Müller tube
- Calorimeter
- Microchannel Plate (MCP)
- Cherenkov Detector
- Time-of-Flight Detector
Scintillators
- Sodium Iodide
- Cesium Iodide
Semiconductor
- Silicon PIN Diodes
- Germanium Detector
- Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) Detector
Neutron Detectors
- Coated Semiconductor Detectors
Companies
List of companies offering services or products in nuclear technology
Nuclear Reactor Engineering
- TerraPower
- Terrestrial Energy
- NuScale Power
- Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC
- DBD Limited
- LeadCold
- Moltex Energy
- U-Battery Developments Ltd
- Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC)
- Seaborg Technologies
- X-Energy, LLC
- Gen4 Energy
- ThorCon
- Holtec International
- Elysium Industries
- Flibe Energy
- Babcock & Wilcox
- Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd
- Transatomic Power
- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
- Westinghouse Electric Company
- OKB Gidropress
- OKBM Afrikantov
- Atomenergomash
- Atommash
- OMZ
- Atomstroyexport
- KEPCO E&C
- Rolls Royce
- Ansaldo Nucleare
- Bhavini
- Siemens
- Bouyges Construction
- Škoda Works
- Framatome
- General Atomics
- Bechtel Corporation
- Oklo
Uranium Mining
- BHP Billiton
- Energy Resources of Australia
- Heathgate Resources
- Paladin Energy
- Cameco
- Hathor Exploration
- Star Uranium
- United Uranium
- Uranium One
- Denison Mines
- China Nuclear International Uranium Corporation
- Uranium Corporation of India
- Rössing
- ARMZ Uranium Holding
- Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Combinat
Nuclear Fuel / Waste / Decommissioning
- Sequoyah Fuels Corporation
- Nuclear Fuel Services
- Westinghouse Electric Company
- Urenco Group
- TVEL
- Tekhsnabexport
- Korea Nuclear Fuel
- Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited
- Nuclear Fuel Complex
- Nukem Energy
- Franco-Belge de Fabrication du Combustible
- EnergySolutions
- Sellafield Ltd
- Magnox Ltd
- GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service
- Nukem Technologies
- Orano
- Deep Isolation
- NAC International Inc
Electricity Generation
- Constellation
- UniStar Nuclear Energy
- Southern Company
- South Carolina Electric and Gas Company
- NRG Energy
- Duke Energy
- Dominion Resources
- Energoatom
- Horizon Nuclear Power
- Alpiq
- BKW FMB Energie
- Resun AG
- Vattenfall
- OKG AB
- Sydkraft Nuclear
- Iberdrola
- Endesa
- Eskom
- GEN Energija
- Slovenske Elektrarne
- Rosenergoatom
- Inter RAO
- Nuclearelectrica
- Essent
- Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
- Kansai Electric Power Company
- Tokyo Electric Power Co.
- Electric Power Development Company
- Enel
- National Thermal Power Corporation
- Nuclear Power Corporation of India
- RWE
- EnBW
- PreussenElektra GmbH
- Électricité de France, EDF
- Teollisuuden Voima
- Fennovoima
- Fortum
- ČEZ Group
- China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group
- Ontario Power Generation
- New Brunswick Power
- Bruce Power
- Bulgarian Energy Holding
- Eletronuclear
- Electrabel
Nuclear Fusion
- General Fusion
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems
- Tokamak Energy
- AGNI Energy
- First Light Fusion
- Helion Energy
- TAE Technologies
- CTFusion
- Proton Scientific
- MIFTI Inc.
- Compact Fusion Systems
- LPPFusion
- HyperJet Fusion Corporation
- Horne Technologies
- Princeton Satellite Systems
- Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2)
- EMC2 Fusion Development Corporation
- FUSE Energy Technologies
- HelicitySpace
- Type One Energy Group
- Renaissance Fusion
- Zap Energy
- Strong Atomics
- Breakthrough Fusion International Corporation
- ENN Group
- General Atomics
- HB11 Energy
- Hope Innovations Inc.
- Innoven Energy
- Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
- Marvel Fusion
Hybrid Fusion-Fission
Defence
- Technicatome
- Rolls Royce
- Bechtel Corporation
Space
Nuclear Medicine & Radiology
- Cardinal Health
- Digirad Corporation
- GE Healthcare
- Lantheus Medical Imaging
- Philips Healthcare
- Canon Medical Systems Corporation
- Fujifilm Healthcare
- Hitachi Medical
- Siemens Healthineers
- Samsung Medison
- Shimadzu
- AGFA HealthCare
- Carestream Health
Other
Research Projects & Groups
List of Nuclear Technology research projects and groups.
Fusion Power
Fields such as fusion energy require large scale research projects too big for a single company involving significant public funding.
- Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak (START) - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
- Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
- MAST Upgrade - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
- Joint European Torus (JET) - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
- Axially Symmetric Divertor Experiment (ASDEX) - Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics
- ASDEX Upgrade - Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics
- Alcator - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) - Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- COMPASS (COMPact ASSembly) Tokamak - Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Caltech Spheromak Experiment - California Institute of Technology
- EAST - Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- ETE (Experimento Tokamak Esférico) - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
- FTU (Frascati Tokamak Upgrade) - ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development)
- FuZE (Fusion Z-Pinch Experiment) - University of Washington
- GDT Device - Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
- GEKKO XII - Osaka University, Institute of Laser Engineering
- HFRC (HUST FRC) - Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- HIAF (High Intensity heavy ion Accelerator Facility) - Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- HIST (Helicity Injected Spherical Torus) - University of Hyogo
- HIT - University of Washington
- HL-2A / HL-2M - SWIP (Southwestern Institute of Physics)
- He Ion Source & DiFU Dual-Beam Facility - Ruđer Bošković Institute
- ISTTOK (Instituto Superior Técnico TOKamak) - Instituto Superior Técnico
- J-TEXT - Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- JT-60U - JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency's) Naka Fusion Institute
- Julong-1 Facility (aka PTS) - IFP (Intstitue of Fluid Physics)
- KMAX (Keda Mirror with AXisymmetricity) - USTC (University of Science and Technology China)
- KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) - National Fusion Research Institute
- KTX (Keda Torus eXperiment) - USTC (University of Science and Technology China)
- LDX (Levitated Dipole Experiment) - MIT
- LULI (Le Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses) - Ecole Polytechnique
- MAGPIE - Imperial College London
- MST (Madison Symmetric Torus) - University of Wisconsin Madison
- Magnum-PSI - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
- Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory - Fusion Energy Sciences
- University of Washington’s William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Fusion Propulsion
- The University of Alabama in Huntsville - Propulsion Research Center
Hybrid Fusion-Fission
- University of Texas at Austin - Institute for Fusion Studies
Nuclear Medicine & Radiology
- UCL - Institute of Nuclear Medicine
- The Institute of Cancer Research
- National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Medical Physics
- University of Toronto - Department of Medical Imaging
- Stanford - Nuclear Medicine Research Lab (NMRL)
- John Hopkins Medicine - Radiology and Radiological Science
- University of California, San Francisco - Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
- University of Virginia - Radiology and Medical Imaging
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra (UMC)
Defence
Other Nuclear Technology Related Groups & Organisations
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- World Nuclear Association
- American Nuclear Society
- American Fusion Project
- Fusion Industry Association
Miscellaneous
List of topics linked to nuclear technology.
Notable People
List of people who made significant contributions to nuclear technology or nuclear physics.
Further reading
Title
Author
Link
Type
Date
Nuclear Power Today | Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association
Web
Updated February 2020
The History of Nuclear Energy
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy
Web
The Number of Fusion Energy Startups is Growing Fast - Here's Why
Sam Wurzel
Web
February 7th, 2020
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Title
Date
Link
Is Nuclear Fusion The Answer To Clean Energy?
Oct 29, 2019
Mini-Nuclear Reactors Are Coming, and They Could Reinvent the Energy Industry
Jul 21, 2019
NASA's New Space Reactor Is Powered by Nuclear Fission
Jun 30, 2019
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