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NUCLEAR POWERED [8 records]

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Record 1 2025-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
CONT

There are very few icebreakers fitted with steam turbine systems other than nuclear powered vessels. Nuclear powered icebreakers use their steam turbines to generate electrical power to operate electric propulsion motors, in exactly the same way conventional diesel-electric icebreakers operate – only the prime mover is different.

Key term(s)
  • nuclear-powered ice breaker
  • nuclear powered ice breaker
  • nuclear ice breaker
  • atomic ice breaker
  • nuclear-powered ice-breaker
  • nuclear powered ice-breaker
  • nuclear ice-breaker
  • atomic ice-breaker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
CONT

Mis à part les navires à propulsion nucléaire, très peu de brise-glaces sont dotés de turbines à vapeur. Les brise-glaces à propulsion nucléaire utilisent leurs turbines à gaz pour générer de l'électricité et faire fonctionner les moteurs à propulsion électrique, exactement comme les brise-glaces diesels-électriques classiques; seule la machine d'entraînement est différente.

Key term(s)
  • brise-glaces à propulsion nucléaire
  • brise-glaces nucléaire
  • brise-glaces à propulsion atomique
  • brise-glaces atomique

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Nuclear Science and Technology
CONT

A nuclear-powered vessel(NPV) is a ship or submarine that is powered by a nuclear reactor. This allows NPVs to operate at sea for much longer periods than conventionally powered vessels.

CONT

Initially, the major powers continued to build diesel-electric submarines alongside nuclear vessels, but some later gave in to the expense of maintaining two categories of submarine in parallel.

Key term(s)
  • nuclear powered vessel

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Sciences et techniques nucléaires
CONT

Dans le cas des incidents impliquant des navires à propulsion nucléaire (NPN) appartenant aux forces armées étrangères et se trouvant dans les ports canadiens, le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes (MDN/FC) agira en tant qu'autorité canadienne responsable sur le site.

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Submarines (Naval Forces)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

There are three categories of submarines : the cruise missile submarine, the attack submarine, and the ballistic missile submarine. They are either powered by nuclear or diesel fuel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sous-marins (Forces navales)
  • Missiles et roquettes

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Submarines (Naval Forces)
OBS

nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine : Terminology standardized by NATO Military Agency for Standardization(MAS).

OBS

boomer: naval slang

OBS

nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine : term extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sous-marins (Forces navales)
OBS

sous-marin nucléaire lanceur d'engins balistiques : Terminologie normalisée par le Bureau militaire de standardisation OTAN.

OBS

À noter que le terme «missile balistique» est plus couramment employé de nos jours que celui d'«engin balistique».

OBS

sous-marin nucléaire lanceur d'engins balistiques : terme tiré du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2007-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

[The guidelines in the RSP-0209B report] also attempts to cover special cases such as nuclear powered satellite re-entry and contamination accidents resulting from intentional or unintentional spills in the environment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

[Les] lignes directrices [du rapport RSP-0209-B] visent également certains cas spéciaux, comme la rentrée de satellites à propulsion nucléaire et les accidents de contamination résultant de déversements intentionnels ou non intentionnels dans l'environnement.

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

... every operator shall take a sufficient number of types of porosity-measuring wireline logs in any well so that any effect of shaliness, hydrocarbons, complex lithology and the walls of the hole can be compensated for in determining the porosity of any formation.

OBS

wireline log : A continuous measurement of formation properties with electrically powered instruments to infer properties and make decisions about drilling and production operations. The record of the measurements, typically a long strip of paper, is also called a log. Measurements include electrical properties(resistivity and conductivity at various frequencies), sonic properties, active and passive nuclear measurements, dimensional measurements of the wellbore, formation fluid sampling, formation pressure measurement, wireline-conveyed sidewall coring tools, and others.

Key term(s)
  • porosity measuring wireline log

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

[...] l'exploitant réalise un nombre suffisant de types différents de diagraphies de porosité dans un puits pour que tout effet attribuable à la présence d'argiles, aux hydrocarbures, à une lithologie complexe ou aux parois du trou puisse être corrigé lors du calcul de la porosité de la formation.

OBS

diagraphie: Ensemble d'enregistrements électriques, acoustiques, gammamétriques effectués au cours des forages.

Spanish

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Record 7 - external organization data 1994-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
  • Nuclear Power Stations
  • Special Water Transport
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

Although Canada has no mobile nuclear installations, the Act covers nuclear installations which may be mobile, such as nuclear powered ships.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
  • Centrales nucléaires
  • Transports par bateaux spéciaux
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Bien que le Canada ne dispose d'aucune installation nucléaire mobile, la Loi couvre certaines installations nucléaires pouvant être mobiles, telles que les navires propulsés par un réacteur nucléaire.

Spanish

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Record 8 1989-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ship and Boat Parts
CONT

Length at design waterline ... 230 m ... Beam at design waterline ... 24 m ...

OBS

Some of the dimensional characteristics of the Soviet nuclear powered cruiser Kirov are estimated to be just as mentioned above.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parties des bateaux

Spanish

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