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CANDU

Nuclear Energy

Canadian deuterium–uranium reactor.

CANDU is a pressurized heavy-water reactor that can use natural uranium fuel in horizontal pressure tubes through a calandria.

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Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR)

The pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) uses natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as coolant and moderator. Most of them are of the CANDU type.

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Heavy water

Water with deuterium instead of ordinary hydrogen.