Skip to main content

Gas-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactors

Although the U.S. has only one such reactor, they have served well overseas. They have an attractive safety feature: a loss-of-coolant accident such as the one at Three Mile Island is all but impossible

00
Scientific American Magazine Vol 244 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Gas-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactors” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 244 No. 6 (), p. 55
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0681-55