CANDU heavy-water reactor
Reactor de agua pesada CANDU
- Date
- 1962 · confidence high
- Place
- Rolphton, Ontario, Canada
- Credited to
- Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A reactor moderated and cooled with heavy water that runs on natural, unenriched uranium and is refuelled while operating. It was the first commercial design that did not need enrichment.
The first demonstration reactors were NPD (Rolphton, 1962) and Douglas Point (1967).
What it led to
- plants in Canada, India, South Korea and Romania
- independence from uranium enrichment
- a derived Indian reactor (Pokhran I)