Assertion: heavy water | /r/ObjectUse | used as a neutron moderator
Facets:
value: in nuclear reactors
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Although a scientific curiosity from the start, considerable interest in heavy water was aroused in 1939 when Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski suggested that heavy water could be used as a neutron moderator in a nuclear reactor using natural uranium.
text: Heavy water is used as neutron moderator in nuclear reactors.
text: As mentioned earlier, deuterium oxide is an integral part of heavy water nuclear reactors, where it is used as a coolant and as a neutron moderator.
text: Heavy water is used as a neutron moderator in some nuclear reactors, such as CANDU reactors.
text: Heavy water is used as a neutron moderator in some nuclear reactors, such as CANDU reactors.