A reactor using nuclear grade graphite as the moderator and gas
or light water as the coolant. Magnox type power reactors are
carbon dioxide cooled and natural uranium fuelled, with the fuel
cladding of a magnesium alloy (hence the name Magnox). Advanced gas
cooled reactors (AGRs) are cooled with carbon dioxide and fuelled
with low enriched uranium oxide, clad in stainless steel. Reactors
of the RBMK type (the acronym in Russian for 'reactor of high
power, boiling') are power reactors that use graphite as the
moderator and boiling light water as the coolant. The fuel is low
enriched uranium oxide, clad in Zircaloy and contained in vertical
pressure tubes. Magnox type power reactors, AGRs and RBMK type
reactors are treated, for safeguards purposes, as item facilities.
In high temperature gas cooled reactors (HTGRs), fuel can be in the
form of pebbles made of oxide or carbide nuclear material particles
embedded in a matrix of graphite; reactors with pebble type fuel
are treated, for safeguards purposes, as bulk handling
facilities.