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    The Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) is a passively safe generation III+ reactor design derived from its predecessor, the Simplified Boiling...
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    (Experimental Boiling Water Reactor) SL-1 (destroyed during accident in 1961) Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR)...
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    reactor Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) (generation III+) "Supercritical-Water-Cooled Reactor...
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    Japan), offering both the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) and the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) for construction and export;...
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  • Boiling water reactor safety systems are nuclear safety systems constructed within boiling water reactors in order to prevent or mitigate environmental...
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    (EPR) and 3 core damage events for the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) per 100 million reactor-years are significantly lower than the...
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  • the United States, Australia, and Canada. Based on the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor designs by General Electric (GE), the NMR is a natural...
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    GE BWR (category Nuclear power stations using Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors)
    followed by the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) introduced in the 1990s and the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) introduced in the...
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    Boiling Water Reactor and the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor. Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) [moderator: high-pressure heavy water;...
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  • renewal of ABWR certification. The Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), the Generation III+ Class design reactor, received a positive final safety...
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  • General Electric Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) and the Westinghouse Advanced Passive 1000 (AP1000, a PWR) reactor as candidates. The...
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    modular construction. Reactor type and the nuclear processes may vary. Of the many SMR designs, the pressurized water reactor (PWR) is the most common...
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  • BWRX-300 (category Nuclear power reactor types)
    reactor design,note the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) design and utilizing components of the operational Advanced boiling water reactor...
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    Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station (category Nuclear power stations using Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors)
    design selected is the 1,550 MWe GE-designed passive Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR). Review of the 17,000-page application could take...
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  • cost-saving design choices made for both the AP1000 and Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor. The UCS endorsed the 2007 Forests Now Declaration, which...
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  • Isolation condenser (category Light water reactors)
    systems in some nuclear plants (boiling water reactor safety systems). It is a passive system for cooling of some reactors (BWR/2, BWR/3 ..., and the (E)SBWR...
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    Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (category Nuclear power stations using Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors)
    nuclear power station with one operational GE BWR reactor (General Electric boiling water reactor). It lies on a 2,100 acres (850 ha) site near Port...
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    North Anna Nuclear Generating Station (category Nuclear power stations using Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors)
    and Operating License (COL) for a 1,520 MWe GE–Hitachi Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), designated as North Anna Unit 3. In 2009, having...
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    River Bend Nuclear Generating Station (category Nuclear power stations using Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors)
    new nuclear reactor at River Bend. The 1550 MWe Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) was the selected design. The reactor's cost was estimated...
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  • requirements of the system. The General Electric Company ESBWR (Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor, a BWR) is a design reported to use passive safety components...
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    The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based...
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    halt proceedings to approve the standardized AP1000 and Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor designs. The petitioners asked the NRC to supplement its...
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    this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but it has been simplified to...
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    gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is a type of gas-cooled nuclear reactor which uses uranium fuel and graphite moderation to produce very high reactor core output...
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  • for eight nuclear power plants, at least six GE-Hitachi Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors (ESBWRs). Konada is located at 18°01′00″N 83°34′00″E...
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  • lower. The common failure process of fuel in the water-cooled reactors is a transition to film boiling and subsequent ignition of zirconium cladding in...
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    The fuel design is a hybrid between light water reactor fuel assemblies and traditional molten salt reactor approaches, in which the fuel is mixed with...
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  • AP1000 (redirect from AP1000 reactor)
    and sold by Westinghouse Electric Company. The plant is a pressurized water reactor with improved use of passive nuclear safety and many design features...
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  • Westinghouse's patent for pressurized water reactor (PWR) technology, while CGE used General Electric's patent for boiling water reactor (BWR) technology. For turbo-alternators...
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    TMSR-LF1 (category Graphite moderated reactors)
    industrial, and economic conditions in 1970s China however, and a pragmatic decision was made develop pressurized light water reactors (PWRs) instead;...
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