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    The advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) is a Generation III boiling water reactor. The ABWR is currently offered by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH)...
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    A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating...
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    from the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR). All are designs by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), and are based on previous Boiling Water Reactor designs...
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  • of fast neutron reactors. The RMWR concept builds upon the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor and is under active development in theoretical studies, particularly...
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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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    (of 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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    (GIF). The first Generation III reactors to begin operation were Kashiwazaki 6 and 7 advanced boiling water reactors (ABWRs) in 1996 and 1997. From 2012...
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  • of 6 different BWR generations. In 1997, the GE-Hitachi U.S. Advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) design was certified as a final design in final form...
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    GE BWR (category Nuclear power stations using advanced boiling water reactors)
    was followed by the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) introduced in the 1990s and the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) introduced...
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    of which are the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor and the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor. Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) [moderator:...
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    than in other nuclear reactors, and nearly twice that of a boiling water reactor (BWR). As an effect of this, only localized boiling occurs and steam will...
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    pressurized since its boiling point is much higher than the reactor's operating temperature, and sodium does not corrode steel reactor parts, and in fact...
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  • The advanced heavy-water reactor (AHWR) or AHWR-300 is the latest Indian design for a next-generation nuclear reactor that burns thorium in its fuel core...
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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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  • 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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  • A pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR) is a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water (deuterium oxide D2O) as its coolant and neutron moderator. PHWRs...
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    reactor") is a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union. It is somewhat like a boiling water reactor as...
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    Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (category Nuclear power stations using advanced boiling water reactors)
    Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP) is a large, modern (housing the world's first advanced boiling water reactor or ABWR) nuclear power plant on a 4.2-square-kilometer (1,000-acre)...
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    site adjacent to the old plant. An application to build two advanced boiling water reactors was submitted by Horizon Nuclear Power to the Office of Nuclear...
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    and the reactor shut itself down, without operator intervention. Because sodium has a boiling point of 883 °C (1,600 °F), and lead has a boiling point of...
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  • of nuclear power stations List of boiling water reactors List of largest power stations List of small modular reactor designs List of nuclear reprocessing...
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    include: Boiling heavy water Halden Reactor Pressurized heavy water Boiling light water Organic medium Pressurized heavy-water reactor CANDU reactor IPHWR...
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    The Boiling Nuclear Superheater (BONUS) Reactor Facility, also known to the locals as "Domes", or formally as Museo Tecnologico BONUS Dr. Modesto Iriarte...
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    Tarapur Atomic Power Station (category Nuclear power stations using boiling water reactors)
    reactors, 2 BWR-1 of 160 MWe each and 2 IPHWRs of 540 MWe each. Tarapur Atomic Power Station was constructed initially with two boiling water reactor...
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  • coolant for being high-boiling, radiation-resistant, low-activated and at atmospheric pressure. In a traditional nuclear reactor design, the fuel is only...
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    reactors were sometimes called "water boilers" (not to be confused with boiling water reactors), as the water inside appears to boil, though the bubbling is actually...
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    The advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) is a type of nuclear reactor designed and operated in the United Kingdom. These are the second generation of British...
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  • premium, like on ships and submarines. Most water-based reactor designs are highly pressurized to raise the boiling point (thereby improving cooling capabilities)...
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  • build reactors in Saudi Arabia, and with Exelon to manage the nuclear facilities. The group will either be using the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor or Westinghouse's...
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  • Void coefficient (category Nuclear reactor safety)
    the reactor increases—but it also means that the reactivity increases if the void content inside the reactor is reduced. In boiling-water reactors with...
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