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	[[File:Bruce-Nuclear-Szmurlo.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|Figure 1. The Bruce nuclear plant in Ontario uses 8 heavy water CANDU reactors, the most by any nuclear power plant in the world.<ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor#/media/File:Bruce-Nuclear-Szmurlo.jpg</ref>]]		[[File:Bruce-Nuclear-Szmurlo.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|Figure 1. The Bruce nuclear plant in Ontario uses 8 heavy water CANDU reactors, the most by any nuclear power plant in the world.<ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor#/media/File:Bruce-Nuclear-Szmurlo.jpg</ref>]]

	<onlyinclude>A '''pressurized heavy water reactor''' is a type of [[nuclear reactor]] that makes use of [[heavy water]] (<m>^2_1H_2O</m>) as its coolant and [[moderation\|moderator]]. Heavy water contains an [[isotope]] of [[hydrogen]] called [[deuterium]].</onlyinclude> Deuterium absorbs fewer [[neutron]]s than [[hydrogen]], which is extremely important as [[nuclear fission]] reactions require neutrons to carry out their chain reactions.<ref name=wolf>R. Wolfson, "Nuclear fission" in ''Energy, Environment, and Climate'', 2nd ed., New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012, ch. 7, sec. 4, pp.173</ref> The heavy water is kept under [[pressure]] which increases its [[boiling point]] so that it can operate at high [[temperature]]s without boiling.		<onlyinclude>A '''pressurized heavy water reactor''' is a type of [[nuclear reactor]] that makes use of [[heavy water]] (<chem>^2_1H_2O</chem>) as its coolant and [[moderation\|moderator]]. Heavy water contains an [[isotope]] of [[hydrogen]] called [[deuterium]].</onlyinclude> Deuterium absorbs fewer [[neutron]]s than [[hydrogen]], which is extremely important as [[nuclear fission]] reactions require neutrons to carry out their chain reactions.<ref name=wolf>R. Wolfson, "Nuclear fission" in ''Energy, Environment, and Climate'', 2nd ed., New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012, ch. 7, sec. 4, pp.173</ref> The heavy water is kept under [[pressure]] which increases its [[boiling point]] so that it can operate at high [[temperature]]s without boiling.

	Heavy water is rare, and extracting it from ordinary water is expensive. Although it comes at an increased price, it doesn't require the [[uranium]] fuel to be [[nuclear power#Enrichment\|enriched]] like in some other nuclear reactors. This greatly decreases the expense for the heavy water because uranium enrichment requires separate facilities and extensive processes.		Heavy water is rare, and extracting it from ordinary water is expensive. Although it comes at an increased price, it doesn't require the [[uranium]] fuel to be [[nuclear power#Enrichment\|enriched]] like in some other nuclear reactors. This greatly decreases the expense for the heavy water because uranium enrichment requires separate facilities and extensive processes.

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[[File:Bruce-Nuclear-Szmurlo.jpg|300px|thumb|Figure 1. The Bruce nuclear plant in Ontario uses 8 heavy water CANDU reactors, the most by any nuclear power plant in the world.<ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor#/media/File:Bruce-Nuclear-Szmurlo.jpg</ref>]]

<onlyinclude>A '''pressurized heavy water reactor''' is a type of [[nuclear reactor]] that makes use of [[heavy water]] (<m>^2_1H_2O</m>) as its coolant and [[moderation|moderator]]. Heavy water contains an [[isotope]] of [[hydrogen]] called [[deuterium]].</onlyinclude> Deuterium absorbs fewer [[neutron]]s than [[hydrogen]], which is extremely important as [[nuclear fission]] reactions require neutrons to carry out their chain reactions.<ref name=wolf>R. Wolfson, "Nuclear fission" in ''Energy, Environment, and Climate'', 2nd ed., New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012, ch. 7, sec. 4, pp.173</ref> The heavy water is kept under [[pressure]] which increases its [[boiling point]] so that it can operate at high [[temperature]]s without boiling.

Heavy water is rare, and extracting it from ordinary water is expensive. Although it comes at an increased price, it doesn't require the [[uranium]] fuel to be [[nuclear power#Enrichment|enriched]] like in some other nuclear reactors. This greatly decreases the expense for the heavy water because uranium enrichment requires separate facilities and extensive processes.

The [[CANDU reactor]] is the first and most widely used heavy water reactor, with over 20 in commission in Canada and around the world in Romania, India, China, Pakistan, South Korea and Argentina.<Ref name=nuc>B. Everett, G. Boyle, S. Peake and J. Ramage, "Nuclear power" in ''Energy Systems and Sustainability'', 2nd ed., Oxford, UK: Oxford, 2013, ch.10, pp.407-414</ref><ref>''http://www.candu.org/candu_reactors.html'' online, accessed July 5th, 2015.</ref>

Visit the CANDU [[CANDU reactor|page]] for more details on heavy water nuclear reactors.

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