nuclear reactors

Preferred Label : nuclear reactors;

MeSH definition : Devices containing fissionable material in sufficient quantity and so arranged as to be capable of maintaining a controlled, self-sustaining NUCLEAR FISSION chain reaction. They are also known as atomic piles, atomic reactors, fission reactors, and nuclear piles, although such names are deprecated. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed);

MeSH synonym : nuclear reactor; reactor, nuclear; reactors, nuclear;

MeSH annotation : RADIONUCLIDE GENERATORS and NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS are also available;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear reactor;

Details

Origin ID

D009688;

UMLS CUI

C0028591;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- supply and distribution [MeSH Qualifier]
Record concept(s)
- nuclear reactors [MeSH concept]
See also
- Radioactive Effluents [DeCS]
- chernobyl nuclear accident [MeSH Descriptor]
- nuclear energy [MeSH Descriptor]
- radioactive hazard release [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Manufactured Object [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Nuclear Reactor [NCIt concept]
- Nuclear reactor (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- nuclear reactor [SNOMED Notion]

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