Which of the following defines the process that decreases the number of slow moving neutrons to prevent the chain reaction in a nuclear reactor from going too fast?

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Chase Mendoza

Chemistry

12 November, 09:24

Which of the following defines the process that decreases the number of slow moving neutrons to prevent the chain reaction in a nuclear reactor from going too fast?

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Isabella Poole · Answer 1

The correction option is D.

Neutron moderation is a process through which the speed of fast neutrons is reduced in nuclear engineering; it results in turning neutrons to thermal neutrons which are capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction.