Engineered systems built around nuclear fission or fusion: reactors, containment and cooling systems, and the instrumentation systems built specifically for a nuclear facility. Belongs here: a named reactor design or nuclear facility system considered as a complete engineered system. Does not belong here: general electrical generation and transmission equipment downstream of a reactor that carries no nuclear-specific engineering, grouped under Electrical Engineering, or a radiation-measuring instrument used outside a nuclear-facility context.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplinesQuote, Introduction, traditional disciplines
The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Nuclear engineering
WikipediaHistory, 1951 first electricity-generating reactorQuote, History, 1951 first electricity-generating reactor
The first nuclear reactor to generate electricity was Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I), which did so near Arco, Idaho, in 1951 on December 20.
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